{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/artificial-insemination-of-cattle-regulations-northern-ireland-1988/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/artificial-insemination-of-cattle-regulations-northern-ireland-1988/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1988/339",
  "legislation_title": "Artificial Insemination of Cattle Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/artificial-insemination-of-cattle-regulations-northern-ireland-1988",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Licences to practice artificial insemination",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (6), a person shall not artificially inseminate a cow with processed semen except under and in accordance with the conditions of—\n(a) a commercial inseminator licence; or\n(b) a farm inseminator licence,\ngranted by the Department.\n(2) The Department shall not grant a commercial inseminator licence unless the applicant is properly trained to the satisfaction of the Department and is an employee of the holder of a supply licence.\n(3) The Department shall not grant a farm inseminator licence unless the applicant has to the satisfaction of the Department completed an approved course in the practice of artificial insemination and is—\n(a) the holder of a farm storage licence;\n(b) a member of the immediate family of the holder of a farm storage licence and is normally resident with him; or\n(c) a full-time employee of the holder of a farm storage licence.\n(4) A farm inseminator licence—\n(a) shall authorise the holder to perform artificial insemination on cows only in the herd specified in the licence; and\n(b) shall not authorise the holder to artificially inseminate cows for reward.\n(5) A person shall not be the holder concurrently of a commercial inseminator licence and a farm inseminator licence.\n(6) The prohibition in paragraph (1) shall not apply to a veterinary surgeon who artificially inseminates a client's cow for therapeutic reasons.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1988/339/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:15:08.714745+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."
}