No person shall export any live animal of the bovine, ovine, caprine or porcine species or any other biungulate.

By way of derogation from the preceding paragraph, the Minister (in England) or the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (in Northern Ireland) may by licence in writing authorise the export of biungulate animals originating outside the United Kingdom if the animals travelled through the United Kingdom in direct and uninterrupted transit on main roads or by rail or sea.

No person shall import any live animal of species susceptible to foot-and-mouth disease into England or Northern Ireland from another member State.