Paragraph 15 Compensation

(1)

If an animal slaughtered for human consumption tests positive, the Scottish Ministers must pay to the occupier of the slaughterhouse or other place of slaughter compensation for the carcase and all parts of the body (including the blood and the hide) of—

(a)

that animal; and

(b)

if they are destroyed because of that positive result, the animal immediately preceding it on the slaughter line and the 2 animals immediately following it.

(2)

The compensation is the market value, established under the procedure in regulation 11(1) to (7) (reading “occupier” wherever “owner” is mentioned in that regulation), with the occupier paying any fee arising for nominating and employing a valuer.

(3)

For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2), the market value is the price that would reasonably be expected to have been obtained for the animal from a buyer in the open market at the time of the valuation and on the assumption that the animal was not affected by a TSE.

(4)

Compensation under this paragraph is not payable in any other case.