Section 28

No compensation shall be payable in respect of any animal or bird infected, or any animal product, bird product or carcass contaminated with disease and destroyed by order of any veterinary authority.

There shall be payable as compensation to the owner in respect of any animal, bird, animal product, bird product or carcass reasonably believed to be infected or contaminated with disease, as the case may be, which has been destroyed by order of any veterinary authority and found not to be so infected or contaminated such sum as not

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exceeding one-half of its value as assessed by the veterinary authority subject to the approval of the Minister.