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Article 2 CompensationI1

England and Wales

(1)

Paragraph (2) applies where the Secretary of State causes any animal to be slaughtered under section 32 of the Animal Health Act 1981 F1...

(2)

The compensation payable by the Secretary of State in respect of the animal shall be its market value immediately before it was slaughtered had it not been affected or suspected of being affected with, or had it not been exposed to the infection of, bluetongue.

(3)

In this article, “animal” means a ruminating animal F2or camelid.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in art. 2(1) omitted (20.12.2023) by virtue of The Exotic Disease (Amendment) (England) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1415), arts. 1(1), 6(2)(a)

F2

Words in art. 2(3) inserted (20.12.2023) by The Exotic Disease (Amendment) (England) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/1415), arts. 1(1), 6(2)(b)

Commencement

I1

Art. 2 in force at 20.10.2007, see art. 1(b)