The Foot-and-Mouth Disease Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Slaughter: isolation of things liable to spread disease

26.—(1) This regulation applies to the occupier of—

(a) any premises, other than a slaughterhouse, where the Department has caused the slaughter of an animal under paragraph 3, 3A or 3B of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Order;

(b) any premises, other than a slaughterhouse, where the Department has caused the slaughter of an animal under paragraph 3, 3A or 3B of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Order, in a case where it directs that this regulation applies; and

(c) any slaughterhouse where the Department has caused the slaughter of an animal under The Foot-and Mouth Disease (Control of Vaccination) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 or the Order in a case where it directs that this regulation applies.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3) a person to whom this regulation applies shall isolate all milk, milk products, meat, meat products, carcases, hides and skins, wool, semen, embryos, ova, slurry, manure, animal feed and used litter on the premises until—

(a) the Department declares by notice served on that person that all such items are free of contamination; or

(b) all such items have been treated in accordance with its directions; or

(c) the Department grants a licence authorising any such item to be removed from the premises to be treated in accordance with Regulation (EC) No. 1774/2002 as amended.

(3) Paragraph (2) does not apply to milk on free units where this is authorised by a licence granted by the Department.

(4) A licence granted under paragraph (3) shall contain terms requiring that—

(a) where it is for human consumption, the milk is subjected to one of the treatments in paragraph 3 of Part IV of Schedule 6; or

(b) where it is not for human consumption, the milk is subjected to one of the treatments in paragraph 4 of Part IV of Schedule 6.