{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-scotland-order-2023/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-scotland-order-2023/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2023/93",
  "legislation_title": "The Tuberculosis (Scotland) Order 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/tuberculosis-scotland-order-2023",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Notification of disease in carcases",
  "text": "(1) A person who—\n(a) has possession of or is in charge of a carcase affected with or suspected of being affected with tuberculosis,\n(b) in the course of that person’s practice as a veterinary surgeon, examines such a carcase, or\n(c) in the course of carrying out duties under the Food Hygiene (Scotland) Regulations 2006 or when inspecting meat for any other purpose, inspects such a carcase,\nmust immediately give notice of that fact to an authorised veterinary inspector.\n(2) A person who has possession of or is in charge of a carcase to which paragraph (1) applies must detain it, or so much of it as is affected with or suspected of being affected with tuberculosis, on the premises where it then is until it has been examined by a veterinary inspector.\n(3) In this article and in article 7, “carcase” means the carcase of a bovine animal or other farmed or pet mammal.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2006/3."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2023/93/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:46:02.654435+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."
}