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Animal Health Act 1981

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18 Other provisions as to infected places and areas.

(1) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, where the Minister, on inquiry, and after communication with the local authority, is satisfied that a declaration of a place being an infected place has been made in error— (a) respecting the existence or past existence of disease, or (b) respecting the limits of a place, or (c) respecting any other matter of fact on which the declaration proceeded, the Minister may by order cancel the declaration as regards the infected place, or as regards any part of it, as he thinks fit. (2) Where, in accordance with the provisions of this Act— (a) a place or an area or a portion of an area is declared free from a disease, or (b) a declaration of a place being an infected place is cancelled as regards the place or as regards any part of it, then, from the time specified in that behalf by the Minister, or a local authority, as the case may be, the place, or area or that portion of the area or that part of the place, shall cease to be, or to be in, an infected place or area. (3) An order of the Minister— (a) declaring a place to be an infected place or area, or (b) declaring a place or area, or a portion of an area, to be free from disease, or (c) cancelling a declaration, shall be conclusive evidence to all intents of the existence or past existence or cessation of the disease, or of the error, and of any other matter on which the order proceeds.

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18 Other provisions as to infected places and areas.

(1) Notwithstanding anything in this Act, where the Minister, on inquiry, and after communication with the local authority, is satisfied that a declaration of a place being an infected place has been made in error— (a) respecting the existence or past existence of disease, or (b) respecting the limits of a place, or (c) respecting any other matter of fact on which the declaration proceeded, the Minister may by order cancel the declaration as regards the infected place, or as regards any part of it, as he thinks fit. (2) Where, in accordance with the provisions of this Act— (a) a place or an area or a portion of an area is declared free from a disease, or (b) a declaration of a place being an infected place is cancelled as regards the place or as regards any part of it, then, from the time specified in that behalf by the Minister, or a local authority, as the case may be, the place, or area or that portion of the area or that part of the place, shall cease to be, or to be in, an infected place or area. (3) An order of the Minister— (a) declaring a place to be an infected place or area, or (b) declaring a place or area, or a portion of an area, to be free from disease, or (c) cancelling a declaration, shall be conclusive evidence to all intents of the existence or past existence or cessation of the disease, or of the error, and of any other matter on which the order proceeds.

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