Animals and Animal Products (Import and Export) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Outbreaks of disease in other States

20.—(1) This regulation shall apply where the Department learns of, or has reasonable grounds to suspect, either under the procedures set out in Article 10 of Council Directive 90/425/EEC or Article 18 of Council Directive 91/496/EEC, or through any other means, the presence in any state outside the United Kingdom of a disease referred to in Schedule 3, a zoonosis or any other disease or phenomenon liable to present a serious threat to public or animal health.

(2) In the circumstance described in paragraph (1), the Department may, for the purpose of preventing the introduction or spreading of any such disease or serious threat to animal or public health into or within Northern Ireland, by a declaration to be published in such manner as the Department thinks fit, give notice of the existence in another state of any disease or zoonosis or other cause likely to constitute a serious threat to animal or public health, the area subject to the outbreak, and the types of animal or animal product affected.

(3) A declaration made under this regulation may specify conditions under which the animal or animal product which is the subject of the declaration may be imported.

(4) Upon a declaration being made under this regulation, the entry into Northern Ireland of any animal or animal product which is the subject of the declaration shall be in breach of the conditions of import in these Regulations unless it complies with the conditions (if any) specified in the declaration.