74Amount of compensation

74 Amount of compensation

S. 74(1) amended by No. 25/1997 s. 4(a)(b).

(1) The amount of compensation payable for cattle which are destroyed or which, after being ordered to be destroyed, die before being destroyed must be calculated in accordance with any criteria or method fixed by Order of the Governor in Council with respect to any disease or class of disease or any cattle or class of cattle that is specified in the Order whether after destruction or death the cattle are found to be free from disease or not.

(2) The amount of compensation payable for any one head of cattle must not exceed any amount that is fixed from time to time by Order of the Governor in Council.

(3) The amount of compensation payable for cattle which have reached the clinical stage of any disease specified by Order of the Governor in Council must not exceed the level or rate of compensation fixed from time to time by Order of the Governor in Council.

(4) The amount of compensation payable for any diseased carcase or portion of a diseased carcase condemned as unfit for human consumption because of disease must be in accordance with the scale of amounts of compensation for those carcases fixed from time to time by Order of the Governor in Council.