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