- Enforced by
- APHA
- Status
- Amended (in force with amendments)
- Penalty ceiling
- Imprisonment 3 of 94 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 1 carries different penalties and 90 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.
Does it bind you?
Business-side roles with duties under this instrument.
Plus 13 duties on the regulator, Crown ministers and public bodies — folded into the section list below.
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Any Person — also bound by 2340 other Acts
Occupier — also bound by 235 other Acts
Director or Officer — also bound by 429 other Acts
What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
Introduction
0 of 8 sections shown8 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Notification, suspicion and investigation of disease
7 of 13 sections shownOther duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- APHA must notify occupiers of suspected or existing Foot-and-Mouth diseaseStatutory regulator
- Clean and disinfect vehicles and equipment suspected of contaminationAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- APHA must investigate suspected Foot-and-Mouth disease and designate premisesStatutory regulator
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must designate and investigate suspect or contact premisesCrown / Minister / Government department
Unlimited fine
- Comply with movement restrictions in a temporary control zoneAny Person
- Do not move animals into, out of, or within a movement control zoneAny Person
Unlimited fine
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- National Reference Laboratory must use approved diagnostic testsStatutory regulator
6 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Measures following confirmation of disease
10 of 21 sections shownOther duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must trace and manage items from infected premisesCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must ensure veterinary examination before slaughterCrown / Minister / Government department
- Do not move animal carcasses from infected premises without a licenceAny Person
- Do not move animal waste from foot-and-mouth infected premisesAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must ensure disinfection of premises following slaughterCrown / Minister / Government department
- Do not move animals onto premises until 24 hours after disinfectionAny Person
- Obtain a licence before restocking premises after disease slaughterAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must declare disease zones near Scotland or Wales bordersCrown / Minister / Government department
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must ensure veterinary inspections of affected premisesCrown / Minister / Government department
- Comply with entry prohibition notices in protection zonesAny Person
11 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
General and supplementary provisions
15 of 20 sections shown- Carry and produce movement licences for livestockAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Local authority must signpost Foot-and-Mouth disease control zonesLocal authority
- Clean and disinfect vehicles transporting susceptible animalsAny Person
- Provide vehicle disinfection facilities and materials on your premisesOccupier
- Do not remove or alter official disease control marksAny Person
Unlimited fine
- Maintain and allow access to animals when taking over restricted premisesAny Person
- Provide immediate assistance to APHA officers during an outbreakAny Person
- Do not provide false or misleading information to inspectorsAny Person
- Pay for and comply with foot-and-mouth disease notices and directionsAny Person
- Produce records and allow copying during foot-and-mouth inspectionsAny Person
- Keep records of animal movements and vehicle disinfectionAny Person
- Corporate liability for foot‑and‑mouth disease offences via officer consent or neglectDirector or Officer
- Demonstrate lack of knowledge as a defence for zone restriction breachesAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Secretary of State must conduct foot-and-mouth disease alert exercisesCrown / Minister / Government department
- Obtain a licence and authorisation to handle live foot-and-mouth virusAny Person
5 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Amendments and revocations
0 of 4 sections shown4 other sections in this Part — procedural and definitional
Schedules
62 of 115 shown- Control disease spread on premises suspected of Foot-and-Mouth infectionOccupier
- Follow strict veterinary controls when restocking animals after FMDOccupier
- Comply with movement and activity restrictions in Foot-and-Mouth zonesOccupier
- Do not move vehicles on or off the premises without a licenceAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- Do not move non-susceptible animals from infected premises without a licenceCrown / Minister / Government department
- Display foot-and-mouth disease warning signs at entrancesOccupier
- Isolate susceptible animals and follow inspector's isolation/removal ordersOccupier
- Do not move susceptible animals without a valid licenceAny Person
- Do not move specified animal products from premises without authorisationAny Person
- Do not move fodder, waste or other disease-spreading things from premises without a licenceAny Person
- Do not enter or leave infected premises without authorisationAny Person
- Maintain strict hygiene when entering or leaving premises under foot‑and‑mouth disease restrictionsAny Person
- Provide and maintain disinfection facilities on infected premisesOccupier
- Keep written record of cleansing and disinfection operationsAny Person
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- APHA must test vaccinated animals introduced outside a vaccination zoneStatutory regulator
- Do not move susceptible animals from premises during restockingAny Person
- Keep records of susceptible animals and products in protection/surveillance zonesOccupier
- Do not move susceptible animals into or out of a protection zone without a licenceAny Person
- Prohibition on moving non-susceptible animals in protection zonesAny Person
- Do not move animals into or out of a protection zone without a licenceAny Person
- Do not move animal transport vehicles from protection zone without a licenceAny Person
- Do not hold any animal gathering in a protection zoneAny Person
- Do not hold or take part in prohibited activities in a protection zoneAny Person
- Do not carry out itinerant breeding or unauthorised AI/embryo collection in a protection zoneOccupier
- Do not slaughter susceptible animals in a protection zone for private consumptionAny Person
- Do not transport fodder to susceptible-animal premises in a protection zone without a licenceAny Person
- Prohibition on selling fodder from a protection zone unless conditions metAny Person
- Handle dung and manure from a protection zone only under strict controlsOccupier
- Do not sell or move susceptible meat from a protection zone unless older than 21 days and stored separatelyAny Person
- Do not sell or move meat from a protection zone without a licence and proper segregationAny Person
- Do not sell protection-zone meat products unless source meat meets conditionsAny Person
- Do not sell milk from protection zone without meeting conditionsAny Person
- Follow strict rules for collecting and transporting milk from a protection zoneAny Person
- You must not move susceptible animals from a surveillance zone without a licenceAny Person
- Do not hold gatherings, hunt, stalk, or shoot deer in a surveillance zone without a licenceAny Person
- Do not sell or move meat from susceptible animals in a surveillance zone without meeting exemption conditionsAny Person
- Do not sell or send meat from a surveillance zone unless from an APHA-licensed establishmentAny Person
- Keep your dog under control in a foot-and-mouth protection or surveillance zoneAny Person
- Do not sell or move meat products from surveillance zone unless treated or licensedAny Person
- Do not sell milk from a surveillance zone unless it meets strict conditionsAny Person
- Comply with transport and processing rules for raw milk from surveillance zonesAny Person
- Transport, treat and spread dung or manure from surveillance zones only under licenceAny Person
- Obtain licence to shear or dip sheep in a disease control zoneAny Person
- Do not ultrasound scan sheep in a protection or surveillance zone without a licenceOccupier
- Do not sell semen, ova or embryos from FMD zones unless they meet requirementsAny Person
- Do not sell untreated hides/skins from disease zones unless old enoughAny Person
- Sell wool/hair/bristles from disease zones only if aged or treatedAny Person
- Do not sell certain animal products from protection/surveillance zones unless treated or older than 21 daysAny Person
- Only move susceptible animals in restricted zones under licence and ensure vehicle is cleansed and disinfectedAny Person
- Slaughter susceptible animals within 24 hours and per inspector directionsOccupier
- Control movement and handling of animal products from slaughterhouses in a restricted zoneAny Person
- Do not move susceptible animal carcasses from a restricted zone without a licenceAny Person
- Don't hold gatherings or hunt/stalk/shoot in a restricted zone without a licenceAny Person
- Do not shear or dip sheep in a restricted zone without a licenceAny Person
- Do not scan sheep in a restricted zone without a licenceAny Person
- Report dead wild susceptible animals to Secretary of StateAny Person
- Keep a record of susceptible animals in a wild animal infected zoneOccupier
- Isolate susceptible animals from wild animals in infected zoneOccupier
- Do not move susceptible animals without a licence in a wild animal infected zoneAny Person
- Provide disinfection at all entrances where susceptible animals are keptOccupier
- Do not bring wild animal carcasses or contaminated items onto premises in a wild animal infected zoneAny Person
- Do not move susceptible animal semen, ova or embryos from a wild animal infected zone for EU/EEA tradeAny Person
53 other schedules
Help complying
Guvnor’s practical routes through this instrument.
Becoming a livestock keeper: complete compliance guide
Comprehensive guide to livestock keeping compliance - from getting a CPH number to meeting welfare requirements. Covers cattle, sheep, pigs, and goats.
Farmer compliance checklist
A comprehensive compliance checklist for UK farmers covering livestock, environmental, animal welfare, health and safety, financial, and scheme obligations. Includes frequency of …
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