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1. These Regulations may be cited as the Beef Bones (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 and shall come into operation on 17th December 1999.
2. The Beef Bones Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997(1) shall be amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 9.
3. For regulation 3 there shall be substituted the following regulation—
3.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), a person shall not use any bone-in beef in the preparation, in the course of a business, of any food or ingredient for human consumption.
(2) The prohibition in paragraph (1) shall not apply to the use of bone-in beef in the production of food for sale direct to the ultimate consumer at the premises where the production takes place, including the case where the sale involves delivery of take-away food.
(3) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall prohibit the processing or treatment of bone-in beef for sale as such.”.
4. For regulation 4 there shall be substituted the following regulation—
4.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), a person shall not sell any bone removed from bone-in beef deboned in the United Kingdom for use in the preparation, in the course of a business, of any food or ingredient for human consumption.
(2) Subject to paragraph (4), a person shall not use any bone removed from bone-in beef deboned in the United Kingdom in the preparation, in the course of a business, of any food or ingredient for human consumption.
(3) The prohibition in paragraph (1) shall not apply to the sale of bones for use in the production of food for sale direct to the ultimate consumer at the premises where the production takes place, including the case where the sale to the ultimate consumer involves delivery of take-away food.
(4) The prohibition in paragraph (2) shall not apply to the use of bones in the production of food for sale direct to the ultimate consumer at the premises where the production takes place, including the case where the sale involves delivery of take-away food.”.
5. For regulation 5 there shall be substituted the following regulation—
5.—(1) Subject to paragraph (5), a person shall not, in the course of a business, sell for human consumption any food an ingredient of which consists of bones removed from bone-in beef deboned in the United Kingdom.
(2) Subject to paragraph (6), a person shall not, in the course of a business, sell for human consumption any food an ingredient of which is derived from bones removed from bone-in beef deboned in the United Kingdom.
(3) A person shall not sell any substance derived from bones removed from bone-in beef deboned in the United Kingdom for use in the preparation, in the course of a business, of any food or ingredient for human consumption.
(4) Subject to paragraph (7), a person shall not use any substance derived from bones removed from bone-in beef deboned in the United Kingdom in the preparation, in the course of a business, of any food or ingredient for human consumption.
(5) The prohibition in paragraph (1) shall not apply to the sale of any food, an ingredient of which consists of bones, direct to the ultimate consumer at the premises where it was produced (including the case where the sale involves delivery of take-away food) if the bones in question were added to the food at those premises.
(6) The prohibition in paragraph (2) shall not apply to the sale of food direct to the ultimate consumer at the premises where it was produced (including the case where the sale involves delivery of take-away food) if the ingredient in question was derived from the bones concerned at those premises.
(7) The prohibition in paragraph (4) shall not apply to the use of a substance in the production of food for sale direct to the ultimate consumer at the premises where the production takes place (including the case where the sale involves delivery of take-away food) if that substance was derived from the bones concerned at those premises.
(8) For the purposes of this regulation, an ingredient or substance shall be treated as derived from bones removed from bone-in beef regardless of whether it was derived from the bones before, during or after their removal from the bone-in beef.”.
6. Regulation 6 is revoked.
7. For regulation 7 there shall be substituted the following regulation—
7.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the operator of any food premises shall ensure that—
(a)all bones at the premises which have been removed from bone-in beef deboned in the United Kingdom; and
(b)all substances at the premises which have been derived from bones removed from bone-in beef deboned in the United Kingdom,
are stored separately from and do not come into contact with any other food at those premises.
(2) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to the storage of bones and substances at any premises at which (pursuant to these Regulations) the bones and substances are used in the production of food for sale direct to the ultimate consumer at those premises.”.
8. Regulation 8 is revoked.
9. For regulation 9 there shall be substituted the following regulation—
9.—(1) Any person who at food premises debones bone-in beef shall make a record of the place to which the bones concerned are consigned.
(2) Where the bones are re-consigned the person re-consigning them shall make a record of the place to which they are consigned.
(3) Any record required to be made pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2) shall be kept for at least two years from the date of making.
(4) This regulations shall not apply where bones are—
(a)disposed of by way of sale to the ultimate consumer; or
(b)not consigned or re-consigned for human consumption.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 15th December 1999.
L.S.
Liam McKibben
Senior Officer of the
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
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