Change in African Horse Sickness rules
Regulations stating how the Government and horse industry would deal with an outbreak of African Horse Sickness (AHS) in the UK became law on 21 November.
Brigadier Paul Jepson, the chairman of the African Horse Sickness Working Group, has said the robust regulations would help control spread of the disease and avoid control measures that involve mass slaughter.
Compensation up to a maximum of £2,500 will only be paid where suspect horses are killed but subsequently are found not to have the disease.
The regulations can be found at www.legislation.gov.uk
This news story was first published in the current issue of H&H (6 December 2012)
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.