{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/artificial-insemination-of-cattle-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/artificial-insemination-of-cattle-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-7.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/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Licence to operate a processing centre",
  "text": "For regulation 7 there shall be substituted the following regulation—\n“7 (1) A person shall not—\n(a) keep an approved bull for the purposes of collecting semen therefrom;\n(b) collect semen for processing; or\n(c) process semen,\nfor the purposes of that semen being used in the artificial insemination of a cow except under and in accordance with the conditions of a processing centre licence granted by the Department.\n(2) The Department shall not grant a processing centre licence unless it is satisfied that the processing centre to which it relates complies with the provisions of the Directive (and, in particular, Annex A thereof).\n(3) Where the Department has granted a processing centre licence it shall issue a distinguishing registration number in respect of the processing centre to which the licence relates.\n(4) The Department shall approve a centre veterinarian to supervise each processing centre and that veterinarian shall report to the Department any breach of any provision of the Directive in relation to those premises.”.",
  "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/7",
    "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."
}