{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-no-2-order-1988/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-no-2-order-1988/article-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/2299",
  "legislation_title": "The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (No. 2) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-spongiform-encephalopathy-no-2-order-1988",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Prohibition of sale, supply and use of milk from affected or suspected animals",
  "text": "(1) No person shall knowingly—\n(a) sell or supply for human consumption or for feeding to an animal; or\n(b) use in the manufacture of any product for sale or supply for human consumption or for feeding to an animal,\nany milk which he knows or has reason to suspect has been produced by an affected or a suspected animal.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3) below, no person shall feed to an animal any milk which he knows or has reason to suspect has been produced by an affected or a suspected animal.\n(3) The prohibition in paragraph (2) above shall not apply—\n(a) to the feeding to its own calf of any milk produced by a cow; or\n(b) to the feeding of any milk to an animal, in a research establishment under the authority of a licence issued by a veterinary inspector and in accordance with any conditions subject to which the licence is issued.\n(4) In this article “animal” means any kind of mammal, except man, and any kind of four-footed beast which is not a mammal and any bird.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1990/1930",
      "affecting_title": "The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (No. 2) Amendment Order 1990"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/2299/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:51:43.932437+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."
}