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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-material-no-2-amendment-no-2-order-northern-ireland-1996/article-3",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/596",
  "legislation_title": "Specified Bovine Material (No. 2) (Amendment No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-material-no-2-amendment-no-2-order-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment to the Specified Bovine Material (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "text": "In Article 2(1) (Interpretation) for the definition of “scheme animal” there shall be substituted the following definition—\n“ “scheme animal” means a bovine animal—\n(a) which has been slaughtered pursuant to the purchase, slaughter and disposal scheme introduced under Commission Regulation (EC) No. 716/96 adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market in the United Kingdom;\n(b) which, being an animal which has been exposed to the infection of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the Department has caused to be slaughtered in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 10A of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "O.J. No. L99, 19.4.96, p. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Paragraph 10A was inserted into S.I. 1981/1115 (N.I. 22) by S.R. 1990 No. 135"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/596/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:31:43.917400+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."
}