{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/artificial-insemination-of-cattle-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/artificial-insemination-of-cattle-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-12.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/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Application of Regulations",
  "text": "For regulation 16(2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“(2) In paragraph (1)—\n(a) “permitted person” means—\n(i) the owner of the bull from which semen is collected;\n(ii) a person who is—\n(i) a regular full-time employee of the owner of the bull; or\n(ii) a member of the immediate family of the owner of the bull and normally resident with him;\n(iii) a veterinary surgeon; or\n(iv) a person who is licensed to practice ova transplantation in cattle under the Transplantation of Ova (Animals) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1982 or a person who is a member of a bovine embryo transplantation team under the Bovine Embryo Collection, Production and Transplantation Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996; and\n(b) “partially processed” means semen which has been collected in a place other than a processing centre licenced under regulation 7(1) from a bull, whether or not it complies with the requirements of Annex B of the Directive, and which has been processed by means of one or more of the processes listed at (a), (b), (c) and (d) of the definition of “processing”.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1982 No. 395"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 389"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/35/regulation/12",
    "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."
}