{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-compensation-order-1990/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/222",
  "legislation_title": "The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Compensation Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-compensation-order-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order prescribes the amount of compensation payable for bovine animals caused to be slaughtered by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food under section 32 of the Animal Health Act 1981 because they are affected, or suspected of being affected, with bovine spongiform encephalopathy.\nThe compensation payable is an amount equal to the lower of either (i) the market value of the animal (determined in accordance with the provisions of the Order and on the basis that the animal was not an affected or a suspected animal at the time of valuation) or (ii) the average price for the month which occurred two months prior to the month in which the market value of the animal was determined under the Order, rounded down to the nearest multiple of £1 except that, where a subsequent laboratory examination of tissues taken from the animal does not confirm that it was an affected animal, the compensation payable shall be an amount equal to the lower of such market value or 125 per cent of such average price rounded down in a similar manner (article 3).\nThe “average price” of a bovine animal for the purpose of such compensation is to be calculated in accordance with the Schedule to the Order and is based upon information concerning sales of bovine animals contained in returns made every month to the Minister in respect of the various markets listed in paragraph 1 of that Schedule.\nThe Order revokes the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Compensation Order 1988 which prescribed a lower level of compensation for affected animals (article 4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/222/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:28:16.241623+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."
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