{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brucellosis-examination-and-testing-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2004/schedule/paragraph-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brucellosis-examination-and-testing-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2004/schedule/paragraph-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2004/364",
  "legislation_title": "Brucellosis (Examination and Testing) Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/brucellosis-examination-and-testing-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2004",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Prohibition on testing, treatment and vaccination",
  "text": "(1) A person, including an authorised officer, shall not take or cause or permit to be taken a sample from any animal for the purposes of an official test under this Scheme or the Brucellosis Control Order (Northern Ireland) 2004, or carry out any test on an animal for detection of the disease, except under and in accordance with the conditions of a licence issued by the Department.\n(2) A person shall not treat any animal for the disease except under and in accordance with the conditions of a licence issued by the Department.\n(3) A person shall not vaccinate any animal with an anti-abortion vaccine intended for use in the vaccination of an animal against the disease except under and in accordance with the conditions of a licence issued by the Department.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 6 in operation at 1.10.2004, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2004/364/schedule/paragraph/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:56:28.065189+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."
}