{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-control-order-northern-ireland-1999/article-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-control-order-northern-ireland-1999/article-15.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/15",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Draft or dispersal sales",
  "text": "(1) Except under and in accordance with the conditions of a licence issued by the Department in writing the owner of any animal shall not hold or cause or permit to be held a sale by auction or otherwise of that animal—\n(a) on premises in which the animal is normally kept unless those premises have been habitually used as a market, sale-yard, fairground or place of exhibition; or\n(b) in any public place other than premises habitually used as a market, sale-yard, fairground or place of exhibition.\n(2) A licence issued under paragraph (1) may, where the Department considers it necessary, be subject to the condition that all of the animals in the sale to which it relates shall have been officially tested during the period of 30 days prior to the holding of the sale with negative results.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 15 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/15",
    "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."
}