Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Incinerators

64.—(1) Any person delivering specified risk material to an approved incinerator shall state in writing to the operator of that incinerator the place from which that specified risk material was collected for delivery to that incinerator.

(2) A person shall not operate an incinerator for the incineration of specified risk material unless –

(a) the incinerator has been approved under this Part as having suitable facilities to incinerate specified risk material in accordance with paragraphs (3) and (4);

(b) he disposes of the ash by burial at a landfill site for which there exists a current disposal licence granted under Article 7 of the Pollution Control and Local Government (Northern Ireland) Order 1978(1);

(c) the incinerator is equipped with a refractory lining.

(3) The operator of an approved incinerator shall incinerate all specified risk material delivered to him to the standard specified in the approval and in such a manner that all moisture is removed, the material is reduced to ash and the ash is disposed of in accordance with the terms of the approval.

(4) A person shall not remove specified risk material from an approved incinerator unless it has been completely incinerated.

(5) A person shall not operate a boiler for incinerating tallow unless the boiler has been approved by the Department as having suitable facilities to incinerate the material.

(1)

S.I. 1978/1049 (N.I. 19)