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

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations alter the conditions of eligibility and the conditions of continued membership of the Beef Assurance Scheme established under the Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996.

The condition of eligibility that the herd must have been in existence for four years prior to registration is disapplied where the herd in question is composed entirely of animals which come from herds which are themselves already registered under the Beef Assurance Scheme.

The condition of eligibility that a bovine animal in the herd shall not have been fed any feed (including home mixed feed) containing meat and bone meal is also changed so as to require that the animal shall not have been fed any feed containing mammalian meat and bone meal.

The condition of eligibility that, over the four year period prior to application for membership of the Scheme, a bovine animal in the herd shall not be fed any compound feed except from a feed mill which solely produced feed for ruminants is replaced by a new requirement that any compound feed so fed must have come from a mill which has not during the four years prior to application stored or used mammalian meat and bone meal.

The condition of continued membership that a bovine animal in the herd shall not be fed feed containing meat and bone meal or any compound feed except from a mill which solely produced feed for ruminants is replaced by the requirement that any feed or compound feed so fed must not contain mammalian meat and bone meal.