PART IV N.I.MEASURES ON CONFIRMATION OF HIGHLY PATHOGENIC AVIAN INFLUENZA AT PREMISES OTHER THAN A REGULATED PLACE

Alternative measures where avian influenza is confirmed at a hatchery or in other captive birds on special category premises N.I.

33.—(1) If, following confirmation of highly pathogenic avian influenza at a hatchery or in other captive birds on special category premises, the Department is satisfied that applying less stringent measures than those in regulations 28 to 31 would not endanger disease control, it may decide—

(a) not to make a declaration of a controlled zone around the premises;

(b) to declare fewer zones than required under regulation 28;

(c) to declare a controlled zone smaller in size than provided for in regulation 29;

(d) to specify in its declaration of a controlled zone that one or more of the measures in Schedules 4 and 5 do not apply in that zone.

(2) The Department must carry out a risk assessment before reaching a decision under paragraph (1).

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 33 in operation at 10.2.2007, see reg. 1