{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-viral-diarrhoea-control-order-northern-ireland-2024/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-viral-diarrhoea-control-order-northern-ireland-2024/article-6.json",
  "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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Herds with one or more bovines which have tested positive",
  "text": "(1) This Article applies to a herd where the keeper of the herd is in receipt of a positive test result, from a sample submitted to an approved laboratory for analysis for BVDV, for one or more bovines in the herd, as mentioned in paragraph 9 of the Schedule to the 2016 Order.\n(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (7), a keeper must not during the relevant period move or cause or permit another person to move a bovine into or from a herd, to which this Article applies.\n(3) Paragraph (2) does not apply if the bovine is being moved—\n(a) for disposal as an animal by-product;\n(b) under licence issued to the keeper by the Department; or\n(c) other than in the case of a BVD unknown status bovine, directly to a slaughterhouse.\n(4) A licence issued under sub-paragraph (3)(b)—\n(a) must be in writing;\n(b) may be granted subject to conditions; and\n(c) may be modified, suspended or revoked by notice in writing given to the keeper.\n(5) In paragraph (2), “the relevant period” is the period—\n(a) beginning—\n(i) 28 days after the day on which the positive test result is recorded on NIFAIS, where the result is recorded within the period of 3 months beginning with the day on which this Order comes into operation,\n(ii) 7 days after the day on which the positive test result is recorded on NIFAIS, where the result is recorded more than 3 months after this Order comes into operation but within the period of 12 months beginning with the day on which this Order comes into operation,\n(iii) immediately after the positive test result is recorded on NIFAIS, where the result is recorded more than 12 months after the day on which this Order comes into operation; and\n(b) subject to the condition in paragraph (6) being satisfied, ending 21 days after the day on which the Department is notified that the last bovine in the herd with a positive test result has—\n(i) been removed from the herd, or\n(ii) re-tested negative.\n(6) The condition referred to in paragraph (5)(b) is that every bovine in the herd, with the exception of untested animals less than 31 days old, has BVD Negative Status.\n(7) Where paragraph (5)(a)(i) or (ii) applies and within the period of 28 days or 7 days (as the case may be) any bovine in the herd with a positive test result has been removed from the herd or re-tested negative, the restrictions referred to in paragraph (2) do not apply.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in operation at 1.2.2025, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2024/226/article/6",
    "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."
}