{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-viral-diarrhoea-eradication-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2016/schedule/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-viral-diarrhoea-eradication-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2016/schedule/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/22",
  "legislation_title": "The Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Eradication Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-viral-diarrhoea-eradication-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Scheme—\n“approved laboratory” means a laboratory approved by the Department for the purposes of this Order;\n“blood sample” means a sample of blood taken by a veterinary surgeon;\n“bovine” means any bovine animal including an animal of the species bison bison or bubalus bubalis;\n“BVD” means bovine viral diarrhoea;\n“BVDV” means the bovine viral diarrhoea virus;\n“Department” means the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for Northern Ireland;\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“keeper” means a person responsible for a herd;\n“official BVD tissue tag” means a tissue sample-enabled tag approved by the Department for the purposes of taking a tissue sample for testing for the presence of BVDV under this Scheme;\n“tagged” means the attachment of approved eartags in accordance with regulation 3 of the Cattle Identification (No.2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998; and\n“tissue sample” means a sample of tissue taken from a bovine by means of an official BVD tissue tag.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 2 in operation at 1.3.2016, see art. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1998 No. 279, as amended by S.R. 1999 No. 324, S.R. 2004 No. 420 and S.R. 2012 No. 416"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/22/schedule/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:58:49.847477+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."
}