Meat (Disease Control) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Amendments to the Minced Meat and Meat Preparations (Hygiene) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

5.  The Minced Meat and Meat Preparations (Hygiene) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997(1) shall be amended as follows—

(a)in regulation 2 after the definition of “registered premises” there shall be inserted the following definition—

““relevant EEA State” means an EEA State other than Iceland;”;

(b)at the end of Schedule 4 (conditions for the production of minced meat) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“7.  Fresh meat such as is referred to in any of sub-paragraphs (e) to (i) of paragraph (3) of regulation 12 of the Fresh Meat Regulations shall not be used for the production of minced meat.”;

(c)after paragraph 2 of Schedule 5 (conditions for the production of meat preparations) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“3.  The following shall not be used for the production of meat preparations which are to be consigned to a relevant EEA State—

(a)fresh meat such as is referred to in any of sub-paragraphs (e) to (i) of paragraph (3) of regulation 12 of the Fresh Meat Regulations; and

(b)meat referred to in paragraph 6 of Schedule 11 to the Poultry Meat Regulations.”.