{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brucellosis-and-tuberculosis-scotland-compensation-amendment-order-1998/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brucellosis-and-tuberculosis-scotland-compensation-amendment-order-1998/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/2181",
  "legislation_title": "The Brucellosis and Tuberculosis (Scotland) Compensation Amendment Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brucellosis-and-tuberculosis-scotland-compensation-amendment-order-1998",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment to the Brucellosis and Tuberculosis (Scotland) Compensation Order 1978",
  "text": "The Brucellosis and Tuberculosis (Scotland) Compensation Order 1978 shall be amended by substituting for paragraph (2) of article 3 (compensation for and ascertainment of value of bovine animals slaughtered for brucellosis or tuberculosis) the following provisions–\n“(2) In the case of brucellosis the compensation shall be–\n(a) where the slaughtered animal is an affected animal or a reactor, an amount equal to 75% of either–\n(i) its market value, or\n(ii) 125% of the average price in respect of the month which occurred 2 months prior to the month in which the market value of the animal was determined in accordance with paragraph (3) below, rounded down to the nearest multiple of £4,\nwhichever is the less;\n(b) subject to sub-paragraph (c) below, where the slaughtered animal has been exposed to the infection of brucellosis, an amount equal to its market value;\n(c) where the slaughtered animal has been exposed to the infection of brucellosis and is or was comprised in a herd which is not an accredited herd and which is undergoing a series of diagnostic tests for brucellosis, the said compensation shall be an amount equal to 75% of its market value.\n(2A) In the case of an animal slaughtered for tuberculosis after the coming into force of this Order the compensation shall be its market value.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1978/1485; amended by S.I. 1981/1448 and 1996/1358."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/2181/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:19:46.359693+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."
}