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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-spongiform-encephalopathy-compensation-amendment-scotland-order-2001/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2001/458",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheep and Goats Spongiform Encephalopathy (Compensation) Amendment (Scotland) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-spongiform-encephalopathy-compensation-amendment-scotland-order-2001",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Sheep and Goats Spongiform Encephalopathy (Compensation) Order 1998",
  "text": "(1) The Sheep and Goats Spongiform Encephalopathy (Compensation) Order 1998 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) below.\n(2) In article 2 (interpretation)–\n(a) the definitions of “average cull price for sheep” and “average cull price for goats” are omitted; and\n(b) the following definition shall be inserted after the definition of “cull animal”:–\n““laboratory” means a veterinary laboratory as may be approved by or on behalf of the Scottish Ministers for the purposes of this Order;”.\n(3) In article 3 (compensation for affected and suspected animals slaughtered for transmissible spongiform encephalopathy)–\n(a) the following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (1):–\n“(1) Where the Scottish Ministers cause an animal to be slaughtered as a suspected or affected animal under the powers conferred by section 32(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981 in its application to any transmissible spongiform encephalopathy and an examination, at a laboratory, of tissues taken from the carcase of the animal confirms that it was an affected animal, the amount of compensation payable shall be–\n(a) in the case of a cull animal, £30; and\n(b) in the case of any other affected animal, £90.”;\n(b) in paragraph (2), for “at a veterinary laboratory of the Ministry”, there shall be substituted “, at a laboratory,”; and\n(c) paragraphs (3), (4) and (5) are omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1998/1647."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 32 of the Animal Health Act 1981 was applied to any transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in sheep and goats by article 7(1) of S.I. 1998/1645."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2001/458/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:43:56.881981+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."
}