Diseases of Animals (Modification) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

The Order adds a new paragraph 10C to Part I of Schedule 2 to the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (“the principal Order”) which empowers the Department to slaughter any sheep or goats affected or suspected of being affected with scrapie or any transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, any sheep or goats which are or have been in contact with sheep or goats affected with scrapie or any transmissible spongiform encephalopathy or any sheep or goats which appear to the Department to have been exposed to the infection of those diseases (Article 2).

This Order further modifies Part II of Schedule 2 to the principal Order so that it now prescribes the amount of compensation payable for sheep or goats slaughtered or caused to be slaughtered as a result of being—

(a) affected or suspected of being affected with scrapie or any transmissible spongiform encephalopathy; or

(b) in contact with or exposed to the infection of such diseases.

The compensation shall be enhanced, where laboratory examination of the carcase of the animal does not confirm that it was an affected animal, subject to a maximum payment of £400 per animal (Article 3).