79DAmount of compensation

79D Amount of compensation

(1) The amount of compensation payable for sheep or goats 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 sheep or goats or class of sheep or goats specified in the Order whether after destruction or death they are found to be free from disease or not.

(2) The amount of compensation payable for any one head of sheep or goat 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 sheep or goats which have reached the clinical stage of disease specified by Order 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 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.

S. 79E inserted by No. 25/1997 s. 6.