{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brucellosis-control-order-northern-ireland-2004/article-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brucellosis-control-order-northern-ireland-2004/article-18.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2004/361",
  "legislation_title": "Brucellosis Control Order (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brucellosis-control-order-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Power to seize certain animals",
  "text": "(1) The Department may seize, detain and dispose of an affected or suspected animal exposed for sale, carried, kept or otherwise dealt with in contravention of this Order or the Scheme, or of any notice served or licence issued under this Order or the Scheme, as the case may be.\n(2) The amount of any expenses reasonably incurred by the Department in seizing, detaining or disposing of an animal under paragraph (1) shall be recoverable by it as a civil debt from the owner of that animal.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 18 in operation at 1.10.2004, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/361/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:56:30.398447+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."
}