{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-spongiform-encephalopathy-compensation-order-1998/article-2.",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1647",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheep and Goats Spongiform Encephalopathy (Compensation) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-and-goats-spongiform-encephalopathy-compensation-order-1998",
  "path": "article/2.",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—\n“affected animal” means a sheep or goat which is affected with any transmissible spongiform encephalopathy;\n“average cull price for sheep” means the price calculated in accordance with article 3(3) below;\n“average cull price for goats” means the price which may be calculated in accordance with article 3(4) below;\n“cull animal” means an animal at the end of its productive life;\n“market value” means the price which might reasonably have been obtained for the animal at the time of its slaughter from a purchaser in the open market if the animal were not an affected or suspected animal; and\n“suspected animal” means a sheep or goat which is suspected of being affected with any transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1647/article/2.",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:26:06.128862+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."
}