{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-viral-diarrhoea-eradication-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2016/schedule/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-viral-diarrhoea-eradication-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2016/schedule/paragraph-6.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/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Inadequate tissue sample",
  "text": "(1) Where the Department is notified by an approved laboratory that a sample submitted in accordance with paragraphs 3 or 4 is not adequate to be subjected to analysis, the Department shall by notice issued to the keeper require the keeper to submit a further sample within 7 days of notification.\n(2) The keeper of a bovine notified in accordance with paragraph (1) shall—\n(a) ensure a further tissue sample is taken from that bovine; or\n(b) arrange for a blood sample to be taken from that bovine; and\n(c) ensure that the sample is dispatched to an approved laboratory within 7 days of taking the sample.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 6 in operation at 1.3.2016, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/22/schedule/paragraph/6",
    "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."
}