Specified Diseases (Notification) (Amendment) (England) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 2023 of 2015).

This Order amends the Specified Diseases (Notification) Order 1996 in England by adding porcine epidemic diarrhoea to the list of animal diseases in Part 1 of Schedule 1 so that suspicion of the infection of porcine epidemic diarrhoea in pigs must be notified to the Secretary of State by the keeper of the pigs. The Order inserts a requirement for the Secretary of State to share the information with the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board. The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board may advise the affected keeper and other pig keepers regarding appropriate precautions to take to protect their pigs from porcine epidemic diarrhoea. It may also raise awareness of porcine epidemic diarrhoea by disseminating information about the disease more widely to the pig industry.