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Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

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Part IIControls on sale of meat

Prohibition of sale of meat from older bovine animals

3.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), a person shall not sell for human consumption any meat derived from a bovine animal slaughtered on or after 29th March 1996 and which, at the time of slaughter, was more than 2½ years of age.

(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) the age of a bovine animal shall be ascertained—

(a)in the first instance by reference to records kept in relation to that animal by the Department (in whatever form); or

(b)where necessary, by dentition.

(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to meat derived from a bovine animal which—

(a)was accompanied, at the time of slaughter, by a certificate issued under regulation 5(1);

(b)was accompanied on admission to the slaughterhouse, by a veterinary certificate issued under regulation 5(2); or

(c)was born, reared and slaughtered in one of the countries specified in Schedule 2.

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