The Scottish Ministers may by notice declare an area in which they are satisfied that a notifiable pest is present to be an infected area.

The notice may provide that all or any of the provisions specified in the Schedule to this Order apply in all or part of the infected area, as the Scottish Ministers consider necessary to prevent the spread of the notifiable pest.

The Scottish Ministers must bring any notice issued under paragraph (1) and any notice amending or revoking such a notice to the attention of persons likely to be affected by it by publishing it in such manner as they consider necessary.