Paragraph 3

An authorised officer of the Council shall in determining for the purposes of this Part of this Schedule whether tuberculosis is generalised take into account the sum of the evidence of disease and the character of the lesions throughout the carcase and, in particular, shall regard evidence of any of the following conditions as evidence of generalised tuberculosis:—

(a)

miliary tuberculosis of both lungs with evidence of tuberculosis elsewhere;

(b)

multiple and actively progressive lesions of tuberculosis;

(c)

widespread tuberculous infection of the lymph nodes of the carcase;

(d)

diffuse acute lesions of tuberculosis of both the pleura and peritoneum associated with an enlarged or tuberculous lymph node of the carcase;

(e)

active or recent lesions present in substance of any two of the following:— spleen, kidney, udder, uterus, ovary, testicle, brain and spinal cord or their membranes, in addition to tuberculous lesions in the respiratory and digestive tracts;

(f)

in the case of a calf, congenital tuberculosis.