Section 13 (extract)- "The Director shall, where there is reasonable suspicion or confirmation of the presence of a notifiable or emerging disease in any area declare the area an infected area.

Section 23 (extract )- "The Director may declare any land, premises or area that is infected or is suspected to be infected with a notifiable disease to be a quarantine area for such period as the Director may determine."

Section 30 (extract)- "Whenever any part of Zambia appears to be threatened by any formidable epidemic, endemic or infectious disease, the Minister may declare it an "infected area" [....]"

Section 30 (extract)- "Whenever any part of Zambia appears to be threatened by any formidable epidemic, endemic or infectious disease, the Minister may declare it an "infected area" and may, by statutory instrument, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes- (a) for the speedy interment of the dead (b) for house to house visitation (c) for the provision of medical aid and accommodation, for the promotion of cleansing, ventilation and disinfection and for guarding against the spread of disease (d) for preventing any person from leaving the infected area without undergoing all or any of the following: medical examination, disinfection, inoculation, vaccination or revaccination or passing a specified period in an observation camp or station [...] (f) for the destruction or disinfection of buildings, furniture, goods or other articles which have been used by persons suffering from infectious diseases, or which are like to spread the infection [...] (k) for the removal and disinfection of articles which have been exposed to infection

Section 13(1): An officer may, where any land, premises or building are suspected of being contaminated with a notifiable or emerging disease—(a) enter the land, premises or building for purposes of inspection or taking of such samples as the officer may consider necessary to contain or eradicate the disease;
(b) prohibit the removal from the land or premises of any animal, animal product, animal by-product or article or anything whatsoever capable of spreading the disease; and (c) order, by notice in writing, the owner of the land, premises or building and an owner of any land, building or premises in the vicinity, to take within a specified period of time such measures as are necessary to eradicate, contain or restrict the spread of the disease. (2) The Director shall, where there is reasonable suspicion or confirmation of a notifiable or emerging disease in any area declare the area as an infected area. (3) A veterinary officer may seize, detain and destroy without compensation, any animal, animal product, animal by-product, or article removed from an infected area in contravention of the provisions of the Act or an order made in terms of this Act.

Section 23(1): The Director may declare any land, premises or area that is infected or is suspected to be infected with a notifiable disease to be a quarantine area for such a period as the Director may determine.(2) The Director may, where the Director declares an area an infected area under subsection (1)- (a) determine measures for the treatment or disposal of any animal, animal product, animal by-product or article in the area; (b) order the treatment of any conveyance whether infected or not (c ) prohibit the movement of any person, conveyance, animal, animal product, animal by-product or article from or to an area (d) order the taking of any other measure to eradicate the disease as the Department may consider necessary.

Section 54 (extract)- "(1) The Minister may, by statutory instrument, in consultation with the Director, declare an area to be a disease freezone [...] (2) Without prejudice to subsection (1), an area shall be declared disease free if —(a) any disease announced by the Director has not occurred in that area for a period specified by the Director;(b) measures to prevent the introduction of disease or infection are in place;(c) barriers, either natural or artificial exist to prevent animal sub-populations from mixing; and(d) no disease declared by the Director under this Act has been detected in adjacent zones including wildlife areas."

Section 54 (extract)- "The Minister may, by statutory instrument, in consultation with the Director, declare an area to be a disease free zone and prescribe (a) the use of such area; (b) the measures to be undertaken by owners of livestock within a disease free zone; and (c) measures to be undertaken by owners of livestock outside a disease free zone in order to prevent introduction of diseases into such area."

Interpretations - "Disease free compartment" means an area smaller than a zone with clearly defined management practice and biosecurity plan and can be recognized as such within an infected zone.