{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-viral-diarrhoea-control-order-northern-ireland-2024/article-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2024/226",
  "legislation_title": "The Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Control Order (Northern Ireland) 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-viral-diarrhoea-control-order-northern-ireland-2024",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order—\n“2016 Order” means the Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Eradication Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2016;\n“approved laboratory” means a laboratory approved by the Department for the purposes of the 2016 Order;\n“associated herd” means a herd which in the opinion of a veterinary inspector is epidemiologically linked to another herd;\n“bovine” means any bovine animal including an animal of the species Bison bison or Bubalus bubalis;\n“BVD Negative Status” has the meaning given to it in paragraph 7 of the Schedule to the 2016 Order (Bovine status);\n“BVD unknown status bovine” means a bovine that—\n(a) has not been tested for BVDV at an approved laboratory, and\n(b) is more than 30 days old;\n“BVDV” means the bovine viral diarrhoea virus;\n“herd” means one or more bovines for which a keeper is responsible and to whom the Department has assigned a unique herd identification number;\n“holding” means any establishment, construction or, in the case of an open-air farm, any place, in which animals are held, kept or handled;\n“inconclusive test result” means a test result from an approved laboratory following a sample taken in accordance with paragraph 3, 4, 5, 6 or 10 of the Schedule to the 2016 Order which is inconclusive for the presence of BVDV;\n“keeper” means a person responsible for a herd;\n“member”, in the expression “member State”, refers to membership of the European Union;\n“NIFAIS” means the Northern Ireland Food Animal Information System or its successor system operated by the Department;\n“Regulation (EU) 2016/429” means Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on transmissible animal diseases and amending and repealing certain acts in the area of animal health.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 2 in operation at 1.2.2025, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 2016/22. Paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Schedule were amended and paragraph 14 of the Schedule was omitted by Article 2 of S.R. 2024/225."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 84, 31.3.2016, p. 1-208."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2024/226/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:27:07.222449+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."
}