Title, commencement and application

1. —(1) This Order may be cited as the Specified Animal Pathogens (Amendment) (England) Order 2006 and comes into force on 4 ^th July 2006.

(2) This Order applies in England only.

Amendment to the Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998

2. —(1)The Specified Animal Pathogens Order 1998( 2 ) is amended as follows.

(2) For article 4, substitute—

“ Prohibitions in relation to specified animal pathogens

4. —(1) No person shall have in his possession—

(a) any animal pathogen specified in Part 1 of the Schedule to this Order; or

(b) any carrier in which he knows such a pathogen is present,

except under the authority of a licence issued by the Secretary of State.

(2) No person shall deliberately introduce into any animal any animal pathogen specified in either Part 1 or Part 2 of that Schedule, except under the authority of a licence issued by the Secretary of State.

(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) are subject to article 5.

(4) If any person has in his possession any thing in respect of which he has reasonable grounds for suspecting that an animal pathogen specified in Part 1 of that Schedule is present, and does not have a licence in respect of that pathogen, he shall forthwith notify a veterinary inspector. ” .

(3) For article 5(2)(a), substitute —

“ (a) permitted to be placed on the market under the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2005 ( 3 ) or the Medicines for Human Use (Marketing Authorisations etc ) Regulations 1994 ( 4 ) ; ” .

(4) For article 5(2)(c), substitute —

“ (c) in respect of which an animal test certificate has been issued in accordance with regulation 8(3) of the Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2005 ( 5 ) . ” .

(5) For the Schedule, substitute the text in the Schedule to this Order.

Article 2(5)

SCHEDULE

Articles 3 and 4

“ SCHEDULE Specified animal pathogens

PART 1

• African horse sickness virus

• African swine fever virus

• Aujeszky’s disease virus

• Avian influenza viruses which are —

  (a)

  uncharacterised;

  (b)

  Type A viruses which have an intravenous pathogenicity index in six-week-old chickens of greater than 1.2; or

  (c)

  Type A viruses H5 or H7 subtype for which nucleotide sequencing has demonstrated multiple basic amino acids at the cleavage site of haemagglutinin

• Babesia bovis, Babesia bigemina and Babesia caballi

• Bacillus anthracis

• Bluetongue virus

• Bovine leukosis virus

• Brucella abortus, Brucella melitensis, Brucella ovis and Brucella suis

• Burkholderia mallei

• Classical swine fever virus

• Cochliomyia hominivorax

• Eastern and Western equine encephalomyelitis viruses

• Echinococcus multilocularis and Echinococcus granulosus

• Ehrlichia ruminantium

• Equine infectious anaemia virus

• Foot and mouth disease virus

• Hendra disease virus

• Histoplasma farciminosum

• Japanese encephalitis virus

• Lumpy skin disease virus

• Mycoplasma agalactiae, Mycoplasma capricolum sub species capripneumoniae, Mycoplasma mycoides sub species mycoides SC and mycoides LC variants and Mycoplasma mycoides var capri

• Newcastle disease (avian paramyxovirus type 1) viruses which are —

  (a)

  uncharacterised; or

  (b)

  have an intracerebral pathogenicity index in one-day-old chicks of 0.4 or more, when not less than 10 million 50% egg infectious doses (EID ₅₀ ) are administered to each bird in the test

• Nipah disease virus

• Peste des petits ruminants virus

• Rabies virus and all viruses of the genus Lyssavirus

• Rift Valley Fever virus

• Rinderpest virus

• St Louis equine encephalomyelitis virus

• Sheep and goat pox virus

• Swine vesicular disease virus

• Teschen disease virus

• Theileria annulata, Theileria equi and Theileria parva

• Trichinella spiralis

• Trypanosoma brucei, Trypanosoma congolense, Trypanosoma equiperdum, Trypanosoma evansi, Trypanosoma simiae and Trypanosoma vivax

• Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis virus

• Vesicular stomatitis virus

• West Nile virus

PART 2

• The live virus causing viral haemorrhagic disease of rabbits ”