Specified Bovine Material (No. 2) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order amends the Specified Bovine Material (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 (“the principal Order”).

The Order makes provision for the sale of MBM products at premises where feedingstuffs for livestock are produced by amending Article 4 of the principal Order. MBM products may now be sold at such premises provided that they are kept in separate buildings from those in which the feedingstuff is produced and the feedingstuff and its constituent ingredients stored. Exceptionally, MBM products and feedingstuffs for livestock may both be kept in the same building, provided that they are there solely to be sold there. In this case, the requirements which apply to other premises selling both MBM products and livestock feedingstuffs apply, in order to prevent any contamination of the feedingstuffs by the MBM product (Article 2(3)).

The Order makes an exception to the record-keeping requirement set out in Article 4 of the principal Order. It provides that no records need to be kept where mammalian meat and bone meal presented as a fertiliser for a use permitted by the Fertilisers (Mammalian Meat and Bone Meal) Regulations 1996 is sold by retail sale, provided that it is sold in packages of not more than 26 kilograms and that not more than 104 kilograms is sold in the transaction. The amendment also provides that the retailer need not keep records relating to delivery to him of such fertilisers (Article 2(7)).