{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-control-order-northern-ireland-1999/article-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-control-order-northern-ireland-1999/article-12.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1999/263",
  "legislation_title": "Tuberculosis Control Order (Northern Ireland) 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-control-order-northern-ireland-1999",
  "path": "article/12",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Power to seize certain animals",
  "text": "(1) The Department may seize, detain and dispose of an affected or suspected animal exposed for sale, carried, kept or otherwise dealt with in contravention of this Order, any notice served under this Order or the Scheme.\n(2) The amount of any expenses reasonably incurred by the Department in seizing, detaining or disposing of an animal under paragraph (1) shall be recoverable by it as a civil debt from the owner of that animal.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 12 in operation at 26.7.1999, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1999/263",
      "affecting_title": "Tuberculosis Control Order (Northern Ireland) 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1999/263/article/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:19:13.914835+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."
}