6.—(1) The Department, if satisfied that it is expedient for the purpose of preventing the spread of disease, may seize any carcase, fodder, feeding stuffs, litter, milk, eggs, [F1fertilisers, or any other thing, whether animate or inanimate,] and destroy, bury, dispose of or treat any thing so seized.
(2) The Department shall pay compensation for any carcase (not being a carcase of an animal or bird which has died of disease or was infected with disease at the time of its slaughter by a person other than the Department), fodder, feeding stuffs, litter, milk, [F2fertilisers, or any other thing] seized under paragraph (1) and, subject in the case of imported eggs to any order made under Article 30, for eggs so seized.
(3) The compensation payable under paragraph (2) for any thing seized under paragraph (1) shall be the value of that thing at the time of seizure and shall be calculated as if it was not affected with disease at that time.
(4) Where any thing destroyed, buried or disposed of under an order made under sub-paragraph (e) of Article 14 could have been seized under paragraph (1) of this Article, the Department shall pay the like compensation, if any, for that thing as if it had been so seized at the time of the destruction, burial or disposal.
(5) Paragraph (7) of Article 18 shall have effect in relation to things seized under this Article as it has effect in relation to animals slaughtered at the direction of the Department and the carcases of such animals.
F1Words in art. 6(1) substituted (12.3.2010) by Diseases of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 1), ss. 11(a), 22(1); S.R. 2010/70, art. 2
F2Words in art. 6(2) substituted (12.3.2010) by Diseases of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 1), ss. 11(b), 22(1); S.R. 2010/70, art. 2
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Art. 6 applied (10.2.2007) by Avian Influenza and Influenza of Avian Origin in Mammals Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/68), reg. 84(a) (with reg. 3)
C2Art. 6 applied (24.3.2007) by Avian Influenza (H5N1 in Wild Birds) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 (S.R. 2007/208), reg. 22(a)