(1)For the purpose of preventing the conveyance of disease by animals exported from Great Britain, the appropriate Minister, with the Treasury’s consent, may—
(a)provide facilities for the examination of animals intended for export; and
(b)provide or approve one or more quarantine stations for the reception, isolation and examination of such animals.
A quarantine station so provided or approved is in this Act referred to as an “export quarantine station”.
(2)Notwithstanding anything in this Act, compensation shall not be payable under this Act in respect of any animal intended for export, which by reason of—
(a)its having been diseased or suspected, or
(b)its having been exposed to the infection of any disease, is slaughtered in an export quarantine station.