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DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 6A

Seizure and destruction of carcases etc. liable to spread disease.

6A.(1) The Ministry, 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, or fertilisers and destroy, bury, dispose of or
treat any thing so seized.

(2) The Ministry 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 Ministry), fodder,
feeding stuffs, litter [, milk] or fertilisers seized under sub-section (1)
and, subject in the case of imported eggs to any order made under section
twenty-three, for eggs so seized.

(3) The compensation payable under sub-section (2) for any thing seized under
sub-section (1) shall be the value thereof 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
paragraph (e) of section eight could have been seized under sub-section (1) of
this section, the Ministry shall pay the like compensation, if any, therefor
as if it had been so seized at the time of the destruction, burial or
disposal.

(5) Sub-section (7) of section twelve shall have effect in relation to things
seized under this section as it has effect in relation to animals slaughtered
at the direction of the Ministry and the carcases of such animals.]

General provisions as to infected places and areas.

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