Specified Diseases (Notification) Amendment (Scotland) Order 2016 (S.S.I. No. 41 of 2016).

This Order amends the Specified Diseases (Notification) Order 1996 in Scotland by adding porcine epidemic diarrhoea to the list of animal diseases in Part I of Schedule 1, where suspicion of the infection of that disease must be notified in accordance. It also substitutes article 5 of the principal Order to provide for notification of suspected cases of porcine epidemic diarrhoea to a person authorised by the Scottish Ministers and inserts a new article 3A to enable a person authorised by the Scottish Ministers to share information regarding porcine epidemic diarrhoea with a person responsible for coordinating on behalf of the pig industry in Scotland a response to a suspected or confirmed outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhoea.