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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-hygiene-and-inspection-regulations-1995/schedule-10/part-IX/paragraph-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/539",
  "legislation_title": "The Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995",
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  "number": "3",
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  "text": "An inspector of OVS 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 satisfactory evidence of generalised tuberculosis—\n(a) military tuberculosis of both lungs with evidence of tuberculosis elsewhere;\n(b) multiple and actively progressive lesions of tuberculosis;\n(c) widespread tuberculosis infection of the lymph nodes of the carcase;\n(d) diffuse acute lesions of tuberculosis of both the pleura and peritoneum associated with an enlarged or tuberculous lymph node of the carcase;\n(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 tuberculosis lesions in the respiratory and digestive tracts; and\n(f) in the case of a calf, congenital tuberculosis.",
  "extent": null,
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      "affecting": "uksi/2000/656",
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      "affecting": "uksi/1995/3189",
      "affecting_title": "The Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) (Amendment) Regulations 1995"
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  "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."
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