Article 3 Amendment of the Tuberculosis Control Order (Northern Ireland) 1964

Subject to Article 4, in Article 10 (Compensation) for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—

“(2)

For the purposes of this Order the market value of the animal means—

(a)

in the case of a bovine animal over 30 months old either—

(i)

the price which might reasonably have been obtained for it at the time of valuation in accordance with paragraph (3) from a purchaser in the market if it had been free from tuberculosis; or

(ii)

the price which would have applied had the animal been slaughtered in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No. 716/96 adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market in the United Kingdom^f1,

whichever is the higher.

(b)

in the case of a bovine animal 30 months old or under, the price which might have been obtained for it at the time of valuation in accordance with paragraph (3) from a purchaser in the market if it had been free from tuberculosis.”.