http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2264/signature/made

The Zoonoses Order 1988

Animal health

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy

Zoonoses

King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

2014-08-12

ANIMALS;ANIMAL HEALTH

Section 29 of the Animal Health Act 1981 (“the Act”) empowers Ministers, with a view to reducing the risk to human health from any disease of animals, to make an order designating any such disease which, in their opinion, constitutes such a risk and applying any provision of the Act to that disease.