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SCHEDULECalculation of the value of a non-bovine animal slaughtered for tuberculosis

Veterinary improvement notice

2.—(1) This paragraph applies where the keeper of a non-bovine animal has been served with a veterinary improvement notice and fails to comply with one or more of its requirements.

(2) Where—

(a)the keeper fails to comply with one requirement in the veterinary improvement notice;

(b)a non-bovine animal has been tested under article 9 (tuberculosis testing);

(c)that non-bovine animal has been slaughtered following that test under section 32(1) of the Act as it applies to tuberculosis; and

(d)that test was applied to the herd that included that non-bovine animal (after the keeper was served with the veterinary improvement notice)—

(i)for the first time, “B” is 0.75;

(ii)for the second time, “B” is 0.5; or

(iii)subsequently, “B” is 0.05.

(3) Where—

(a)the keeper fails to comply with more than one requirement in the veterinary improvement notice;

(b)a non-bovine animal has been tested under article 9;

(c)that non-bovine animal has been slaughtered under section 32(1) of the Act as it applies to tuberculosis following that test; and

(d)that test was applied to the herd that included that non-bovine animal, (after the keeper was served with the veterinary improvement notice)—

(i)for the first time, “B” is 0.5; or

(ii)subsequently, “B” is 0.05.