1996 No. 240
Tuberculosis Control (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996
Made
Coming into operation .
The Department of Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 16(1), 44 and 60(1) and paragraph 4 of Part I and paragraph 4 of Part II of Schedule 2 to the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 19811 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement1
This Order may be cited as the Tuberculosis Control (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 17th June 1996.
Amendment of the Tuberculosis Control Order (Northern Ireland) 1964
2
The Tuberculosis Control Order (Northern Ireland) 19642 shall be amended as provided by Articles 3 and 4.
3
Subject to Article 4, in Article 10 (Compensation) for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
2
For the purposes of this Order the market value of the animal means—
a
in the case of a bovine animal over 30 months old either—
i
the price which might reasonably have been obtained for it at the time of valuation in accordance with paragraph (3) from a purchaser in the market if it had been free from tuberculosis; or
ii
the price which would have applied had the animal been slaughtered in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No. 716/96 adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market in the United Kingdom3,
whichever is the higher.
b
in the case of a bovine animal 30 months old or under, the price which might have been obtained for it at the time of valuation in accordance with paragraph (3) from a purchaser in the market if it had been free from tuberculosis.
Saving4
Article 10 shall continue to apply in relation to a bovine animal slaughtered prior to 17th June 1996, as if this Order had not been made.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture on .
(This note is not part of the Order.)