Paragraph 1 Citation and interpretationI1

This Scheme may be cited as the Brucellosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme (Northern Ireland) 2004.

In this Scheme –

• “approved laboratory” means a laboratory approved by the Department to carry out tests on samples submitted to it under this Scheme;

• “authorised officer” means an inspector, a veterinary inspector or other person authorised by the Department for the purposes of this Scheme;

• “official test” means a test to determine whether or not an animal is diseased and includes –

  1. (a)

     a test carried out in an approved laboratory on a sample of blood or milk from an animal in accordance with Annex C of the Directive F1, as amended by Commission Decision 2008/984/EC ;

  2. (b)

     such other test carried out on an animal or sample therefrom, as the Department may require.

Any other expression used in this Scheme that is also used in the Brucellosis (Control) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004^f1 shall have the same meaning as in that Order.