Amendment of the Sheep and Goats Spongiform Encephalopathy (Compensation) Order 19982.

(1)

The Sheep and Goats Spongiform Encephalopathy (Compensation) Order 19982 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3) below.

(2)

In article 2 (interpretation)–

(a)

the definitions of “average cull price for sheep” and “average cull price for goats” are omitted; and

(b)

the following definition shall be inserted after the definition of “cull animal”:–

““laboratory” means a veterinary laboratory as may be approved by or on behalf of the Scottish Ministers for the purposes of this Order;”.

(3)

In article 3 (compensation for affected and suspected animals slaughtered for transmissible spongiform encephalopathy)–

(a)

the following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (1):–

“(1)

Where the Scottish Ministers cause an animal to be slaughtered as a suspected or affected animal under the powers conferred by section 32(1) of the Animal Health Act 1981 in its application to any transmissible spongiform encephalopathy3 and an examination, at a laboratory, of tissues taken from the carcase of the animal confirms that it was an affected animal, the amount of compensation payable shall be–

(a)

in the case of a cull animal, £30; and

(b)

in the case of any other affected animal, £90.”;

(b)

in paragraph (2), for “at a veterinary laboratory of the Ministry”, there shall be substituted “, at a laboratory,”; and

(c)

paragraphs (3), (4) and (5) are omitted.