{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/artificial-insemination-of-cattle-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/artificial-insemination-of-cattle-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/35",
  "legislation_title": "Artificial Insemination of Cattle (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/artificial-insemination-of-cattle-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Approval of bulls",
  "text": "For regulation 10 there shall be substituted—\n“10 (1) A person shall not keep a bull or cause or permit a bull to be kept for the purposes of collecting semen therefrom for use in the artificial insemination of a cow, except it is approved by the Department for that purpose and is kept at a processing centre.\n(2) The Department shall not approve any bull for the purposes of paragraph (1) unless it complies with the requirements of Annex B to the Directive.\n(3) The Department may require an owner or person in charge of a bull to—\n(a) permit or cause the bull to be subjected to such isolation and to such tests, examinations or inspections; and\n(b) furnish to the Department such information,\nas it may deem necessary to enable it to determine whether or not to approve the bull for the purposes of paragraph (1).\n(4) Where the Department has approved a bull under paragraph (1) it may require that the bull be subjected to such further isolation and to such further tests, examinations or inspections as it may from time to time deem necessary.\n(5) An approval granted under paragraph (1) in relation to any bull may—\n(a) restrict to an amount specified in the approval the quantity of semen to be collected from the bull; and\n(b) restrict the use of any semen collected from the bull only to cows in such herd or herds as may be specified in the approval.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/35/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:31:03.443873+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}