{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/551",
  "legislation_title": "Specified Risk Material Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-order-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Seizure and destruction of imports",
  "text": "(1) Where an inspector has reasonable grounds for suspecting that any class I specified risk material or any food or feedingstuff has been imported in contravention of Article 6, he may at any time seize or cause to be seized that material, food or feedingstuff, or anything into which it has subsequently been incorporated.\n(2) A veterinary inspector may destroy anything seized pursuant to paragraph (1) above without compensation.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 14 in operation at 1.1.1998, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/1",
      "affecting_title": "Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/551/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:25:49.559030+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."
}