Diseases of animalsN.I.

Suspected or diseased animals and poultryN.I.

20.  In Article 10 of the 1981 Order (separation of diseased animals and poultry and notice of disease), for paragraph (6) (power of Department to make orders) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

(6) The Department may by order—

(a)prescribe and regulate the notice to be given to or by any person or authority in case of any particular disease or suspicion of it or in case of the illness of an animal and supplement or vary for those purposes any of the provisions of this Article;

(b)prescribe and regulate the separation of suspected or diseased animals and poultry from animals and poultry which are not suspected or affected with disease;

(c)prescribe and regulate the notification of illness of, or disease or suspicion of disease in, poultry. .