The Tuberculosis (England) Order 2014

Made: 2nd September 2014

Coming into force: 1st October 2014

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Title, commencement, application and expiry

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Interpretation

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Approval of veterinary surgeons

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Extension of definition of “disease”

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Notification of suspected disease in a bovine animal

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Notification of suspected disease in a carcase

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Veterinary inquiry

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Tuberculosis testing

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Pre-movement testing

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Tuberculosis test records and publication of information

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Exempt markets

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Exempt finishing units, approved finishing units and approved collecting centres

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Prohibitions

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Isolation and prohibition of movement of animals

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Notification of intended slaughter of bovine animals

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Precautions against spread of infection

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Suspected animals in markets, shows etc.

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Control of infection from other animals

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Marking of bovine animals

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Isolation of M. bovis in a laboratory

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General provisions as to notices, licences and approvals

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Production of licences

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Enforcement

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Revocations

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Transitional provisions

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Review

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SCHEDULE — Permitted movements

Movements to slaughter, exempt markets etc.

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Movement for veterinary treatment

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Movement to agricultural shows

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Signed

George Eustice — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 2014-09-02

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order revokes the Tuberculosis (England) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/740) and two related amendment Orders, and remakes as a consolidated Order with some changes.

Article 1 (3) provides that the Order is to cease to have effect seven years after it comes into force.

The principal changes are set out below.

In article 7 there is an additional provision to ensure that milk from suspect cows is not fed to other mammals without first being treated.

Article 10 provides a power for the Secretary of State to publish location details of premises where the herd has lost its tuberculosis-free status in accordance with Council [Directive 64/432/EEC](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/european/directive/1964/0432) on animal health problems affecting intra-Community trade in bovine animals and swine (OJ No L121, 29.7.1964, p 1977).

In article 16(1), a veterinary inspector may by notice require the occupier of premises where tuberculosis has been identified to carry out specified actions to prevent the spread of the disease as well as the veterinary inspector being able to serve such a notice on the keeper of affected or suspected animals. New measures can be required by the article 16(1) notice to prevent untreated milk being fed to mammals and to ensure that milk from restricted herds is not mixed with milk from unrestricted herds. Breach of notice provisions can now result in the Secretary of State delaying the lifting of disease restrictions from premises.

Article 26 requires the Secretary of State to review the operation and effect of this Order and publish a report within five years after it comes into force and within every five years after that. Following a review it will fall to the Secretary of State to consider whether the Order should remain as it is, or be revoked or be amended. A further instrument would be needed to revoke the Order or to amend it.

In the Schedule the rule regarding permitted movement without pre-movement testing to and from premises within a sole occupancy group has been removed.

A full impact assessment of the effect that this instrument will have on the costs of business, the voluntary sector and the public sector is available on the Defra website at www.gov.uk/defra, and is published with the Explanatory Memorandum alongside the instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1981 c. 22.

[^f00002]: Functions conferred under the Act were transferred, so far as exercisable by the Secretaries of State for Scotland and Wales, to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by S.I. 1999/3141. Functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food were then further transferred to the Secretary of State by S.I. 2002/794.

[^f00003]: S.I. 2007/448, amended by S.I. 2011/1509; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

[^f00004]: OJ No L 121, 29.7.1964, p 1977, last amended by Council Directive 2013/20/EU (OJ No L 158, 10.6.2013, p 234).

[^f00005]: Requirements relating to carcases of deer and camelids are contained in S.I. 2014/2337.

[^f00007]: S.I. 2007/740, amended by S.I. 2009/2713, 2012/1391, 2897 and 2014/714.

[^f00008]: S.I. 2012/1391.

[^f00009]: S.I. 2014/714.

Editorial notes

Post–movement skin tests in the low risk area

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Tuberculosis test records and publication of information

Exempt markets

Exempt finishing units, approved finishing units and approved collecting centres

Prohibitions

Isolation and prohibition of movement of animals

Notification of intended slaughter of bovine animals

Precautions against spread of infection

Suspected animals in markets, shows etc.

Control of infection from other animals

Marking of bovine animals

Isolation of M. bovis in a laboratory

General provisions as to notices, licences and approvals

Production of licences

Enforcement

Revocations

Transitional provisions

Review