The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

When compensation is payable

9.  The Department must pay compensation—

(a)when an animal is killed under this Schedule;

(b)where an animal to be killed under this Schedule has been valued for the purposes of compensation but dies, or is killed for other reasons, after valuation; or

(c)where an animal subject to a movement restriction under this Schedule has to be killed as an emergency and a veterinary surgeon has declared in writing that the animal would otherwise have been fit for human consumption in accordance with Chapter VI of Section I of Annex III to Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin(1) in which case compensation is the value of the body (including the blood and the hide).

(1)

O.J. No. L 139, 30.4.2004, p.55. The revised text of Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004 is now set out in a Corrigendum (O.J. No. L 226, 25.6.2004, p.22) and that Corrigendum was later amended by a further Corrigendum (O.J. No. L 204, 4.8.2007, p.26)