PART 4SAFEGUARD MEASURES

Safeguard measures29.

(1)

This regulation applies where the Department or the Agency has reasonable grounds for suspecting the existence of a disease, zoonosis, phenomenon or circumstance outside the United Kingdom liable to present a serious threat to human or animal health.

(2)

The Department or the Agency may by written declaration suspend, or impose conditions upon, the entry into Northern Ireland of any animal, product or genetic material from the whole or any part of the country concerned.

(3)

The declaration shall be published in such manner as the Department or the Agency thinks fit.

(4)

A person shall not bring anything into Northern Ireland in breach of such declaration.