Tuberculosis Control Order (Northern Ireland) 1999
This Order which is made under the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 revokes and re-enacts with amendments the Bovine Tuberculosis Order (Northern Ireland) 1935 (as amended) and the Tuberculosis Control Order (Northern Ireland) 1964 (as amended). The Order requires the keeper of any animal suspected of, or affected with, bovine tuberculosis and any veterinary surgeon attending such an animal to give notice of the fact to the Divisional Veterinary Officer (Article 3) and requires the Department, where it knows or suspects that any animal is diseased, to notify the keeper of that fact (Article 4).