The Cattle Compensation (England) Order 2012

Interpretation E+W+S

2.  In this Order—

“the Act” means the Animal Health Act 1981;

“animal” means domestic cattle, buffalo or bison;

“brucellosis” means infection with the bacterium Brucella abortus, otherwise known as contagious abortion;

“cattle passport” has the same meaning as in the Cattle Identification Regulations 2007(1);

“enzootic bovine leukosis” means infection with the enzootic bovine leukosis virus;

“market value” means, in relation to an animal slaughtered for brucellosis, tuberculosis or enzootic bovine leukosis, the price which might reasonably have been obtained for it at the time of valuation from a purchaser in the open market if the animal were neither affected nor suspected of being affected with that disease;

“relevant date” means—

(a)

in respect of an animal slaughtered for brucellosis, the date on which a notice requiring slaughter of the animal is served pursuant to article 19 of the Brucellosis (England) Order 2000(2);

(b)

in respect of an animal slaughtered for enzootic bovine leukosis, the date on which a notice requiring slaughter of the animal is served pursuant to article 12 of the Enzootic Bovine Leukosis (England) Order 2000(3);

(c)

in respect of an animal slaughtered for tuberculosis—

(i)

the date on which a positive skin test for the animal is read;

(ii)

the date on which an inconclusive skin test for the animal is read which results in its being classified as a reactor and therefore consistent with its being affected with tuberculosis;

(iii)

where the skin test is negative, or no skin test has been carried out, the date on which a clinical sample is taken from the animal for the purposes of any other diagnostic test for tuberculosis;

(iv)

where no diagnostic test for tuberculosis has been carried out, or where tests have been carried out on the animal with negative results, but the animal is slaughtered because it has been exposed to infection as a result of contact with, or close proximity to, an animal that is affected or suspected of being affected with tuberculosis, the same date as the relevant date for that affected or suspected animal; or

(v)

where no diagnostic test for tuberculosis has been carried out but the animal is slaughtered because it is affected or suspected of being affected with tuberculosis, following clinical examination by a veterinary surgeon, the date of that examination;

“sale price data” means data compiled in relation to domestic cattle from store markets, prime markets, rearing calf sales, breeding sales and dispersal sales in Great Britain;

“skin test” means the single intradermal comparative cervical tuberculin test for tuberculosis; and

“tuberculosis” means infection with the bacterium Mycobacterium bovis (M.bovis).

(1)

S.I. 2007/529, amended by S.I. 2007/1046 and 2011/881.

(2)

S.I. 2000/2055, amended by S.I. 2008/618 and 2009/2713.

(3)

S.I. 2000/2056, amended by S.I. 2009/2713.