1. This Order may be cited as the Brucellosis Control (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 17th June 1996.
2. The Brucellosis Control Order (Northern Ireland) 1972(1) shall be amended as provided by Articles 3 and 4.
3. Subject to Article 4, in Article 9 (Compensation) for paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“(2) For the purposes of this Order the market value of an 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 brucellosis; 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(2),
whichever is the higher.
(b)in the case of a bovine animal 30 months old or under, 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 brucellosis.”.
4. Article 9 shall continue to apply in relation to a bovine animal slaughtered prior to 17th June 1996, as if this Order had not been made.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture on.
L.S.
P. T. Toal
Assistant Secretary
14th June 1996