# Animal Health Act 1981, Paragraph 4


(1) The Minister may, if he thinks fit, in any case cause to be slaughtered—
(a) any swine affected with swine-fever, or suspected of being so affected; and
(b) any swine which are or have been in the same field, pig-sty, shed, or other place, or in the same herd, or otherwise in contact with swine affected with swine-fever, or which appear to the Minister to have been in any way exposed to the infection of swine-fever.
(2) The Minister shall for animals slaughtered under this paragraph pay compensation as follows—
(a) where the animal slaughtered was affected with swine-fever, the compensation shall be one half of the value of the animal immediately before it became so affected;
(b) in every other case the compensation shall be the value of the animal immediately before it was slaughtered.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1981/22/schedule/3/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/animal-health-act-1981/schedule-3/paragraph-4
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