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(1) This Order may be cited as the Foot and Mouth Disease (Ascertainment of Value) (Scotland) Order 2001 and comes into force at 2.30 p.m. on 22nd March 2001.
(2) This Order extends to Scotland only.
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(1) For the purposes of the Animal Health Act 1981 the value of an animal caused to be slaughtered by the Scottish Ministers because of foot-and-mouth disease shall be ascertained in accordance with this article.
(2) If the owner elects to have an animal valued by a valuer, the value, for the purpose of paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 3 to that Act, shall be the amount determined in writing by a valuer appointed jointly by the Scottish Ministers and the owner of the animal or, failing such appointment, by a valuer appointed by the President of the Institute of Auctioneers and Appraisers in Scotland.
(3) If the owner does not elect to have the animal valued by a valuer in accordance with paragraph (2) above, the value shall be the amount set out for that animal in the Schedule to this Order.
(4) The valuer shall be paid by the Scottish Ministers in respect of the expenses of that valuer incurred pursuant to this Order.
DAVID R DICKSON
A member of the staff of the Scottish Ministers
Pentland House,
Edinburgh
22nd March 2001
SCHEDULE
Article 2(3)


Animal Rate (£)
SHEEP 
Breeding ewes (in lamb/lamb at foot) 90
Cull/draft ewes 32
Hoggets (male and female old season’s lamb) 55
New season’s lamb 60
Rams 150
PIGS 
Gilts 190
Breeding sows 130
Cull sows 80
Piglets on sow 18
Stores: Breeding units (weaners) 30
Stores: Finishing unit 55
Boars 520
CATTLE 
Clean cattle: steers 600
Clean cattle: heifers 500
Clean cattle: young bulls 580
Breeding cows 1,100
Breeding heifers 900
Breeding bulls 1,000