17.—(1) This Part applies where the Department declares any premises as infected premises.
(2) The Department shall declare a protection zone around the infected premises.
(3) The protection zone shall have a radius of at least five kilometres, centred on the part of the premises that the Department considers most appropriate for disease control.
(4) The Department shall ensure that—
(a)premises within a protection zone that contain pigs are identified as soon as practicable; and
(b)a veterinary inspector visits all such premises that are within a protection zone, as soon as possible; and—
(i)inspects and as necessary examines the pigs; and
(ii)collects and tests such samples as the veterinary inspector considers necessary.
(5) Schedule 2 sets out measures that apply in protection zones and breach of any of those measures is an offence.
(6) The Department may declare that any other measure necessary to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, the spread of disease, applies in respect of the whole or any part of any protection zone.
(7) Any premises partly inside a protection zone and partly in an area other than a protection zone shall be deemed to be wholly inside the protection zone.
(8) Nothing in paragraph (3) shall deem any part of any premises lying outside Northern Ireland to be within a protection zone.