The Beef Carcase (Classification) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Beef Carcase (Classification) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 17th March 1998.

(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(1) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Amendment of the Beef Carcase (Classification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992

2.—(1) The Beef Carcase (Classification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992(2) (“the 1992 Regulations”) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2) In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 (interpretation)—

(a) the following definition is inserted immediately after the definition of “adult bovine animal”—

““approval number” means (in relation to a regulated slaughterhouse) the unique number of that regulated slaughterhouse required to be specified in the centre of a health mark (as defined in regulation 2(1) of the Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997(3) (“the 1997 Regulations”));”;

(b) for the definitions of “registered slaughterhouse” and “regulated carcase” there shall be substituted the following definitions—

““regulated carcase” means the carcase or half-carcase(4) of an adult bovine animal which has been marked in accordance with regulation 10 of, and Schedule 12 to, the 1997 Regulations;

“regulated slaughterhouse” means a slaughterhouse (as defined by regulation 2(1) of the 1997 Regulations) licensed in accordance with regulation 4 of those Regulations;”;

and, accordingly, any reference in the 1992 Regulations to a “registered slaughterhouse” shall be construed as a reference to a “regulated slaughterhouse”; and

(c) the definition of “veterinary approval number” is revoked.

(3) The following paragraphs are inserted after paragraph (2) of regulation 2—

“(3) Any reference in these Regulations to a Community instrument is a reference to that instrument as amended on the date of making of the Beef Carcase (Classification) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998.

(4) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.”.

(4) In Schedule 1 (Community Provisions)—

(a) in column (1) the following numbered entry is inserted after entry number 5—

“6.   Commission Regulation (EC) No. 295/96 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1892/87 as regards the recording of market prices of adult bovine animals, on the basis of the Community scale for the classification of carcases (OJ No. L39, 17.2.96, p. 1).”;

(b) in column (2) the following reference is inserted immediately to the right of the new entry number 6 inserted by sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph—

• “Article 2(1)(a)”; and

(c) in column (3) the following description is inserted immediately to the right of the new provision inserted by sub-paragraph (b) of this paragraph—

• “Requirement to record market prices.”.

(5) In paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 and paragraph 2 of Part I of Schedule 5 for the words “veterinary approval number” there shall be substituted the words “approval number”.

(6) In paragraph 1 of Part II of Schedule 5 and paragraph 1 of Part III of that Schedule for the words “veterinary control number” there shall be substituted the words “approval number”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland on

L.S.

Liam McKibben

Assistant Secretary

13th February 1998.