Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

Amendments to the Specified Risk Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

2.—(1) The Specified Risk Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997(1) are amended in accordance with the following paragraphs.

(2) In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 (interpretation) the definitions of “class I specified risk material”, “class II specified risk material” and “intestines” are revoked

(3) In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 the following definition is substituted for the definition of “specified risk material”—

• ““specified risk material” means—

  (a)

  specified bovine material;

  (b)

  specified sheep or goat material;

  (c)

  any part of the animal remaining attached to specified bovine material or specified sheep or goat material after dissection of the carcase;

  (d)

  any animal material which comes into contact with specified bovine material or specified sheep or goat material after it has been removed from the carcase; and

  (e)

  specified solid waste;”.

(4) In paragraph (1) of regulation 3 (specified sheep and goat material) the phrase “class I” is revoked.

(5) Paragraph (2) of regulation 3 is revoked.

(6) In paragraph (3) of regulation 3—

(a) the phrase “class II” is revoked; and

(b) the words “or incinerated” are inserted between “rendered” and “whole”.

(7) The following paragraph is substituted for paragraphs (1) and (2) of regulation 4 (specified bovine material)—

“(1) In these Regulations, “specified bovine material” means—

(a) the following material derived from a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom or Portugal at an age greater than 6 months—

(i) the head (excluding the tongue but including the brains, eyes, trigeminal ganglia and tonsils),

(ii) the thymus,

(iii) the spleen,

(iv) the intestines from the duodenum to the rectum, and

(v) the spinal cord;

(b) in relation to a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom or Portugal at an age greater than 30 months (other than a bovine animal which was accompanied at the time of slaughter by a slaughter certificate issued under the Beef Assurance Scheme as described in Schedule 1 to the Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(2)), the vertebral column (including dorsal root ganglia); and

(c) the following material derived from a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died outside the United Kingdom or Portugal (other than in Australia or New Zealand) at an age greater than 12 months—

(i) the skull (including the brains and eyes),

(ii) the tonsils,

(iii) the spinal cord, and

(iv) the ileum.”.

(8) The following paragraph is substituted for paragraph (3) of regulation 4—

“(3) Whole carcases of bovine animals are specified bovine material if they are removed to be rendered or incinerated whole from the place where they were slaughtered or died.”.

(9) The following paragraph is added to regulation 4—

“(4) In paragraph (1), the reference to Portugal does not include a reference to the Autonomous Region of the Azores.”.

(10) Regulation 11 (rendering whole carcases) is revoked.

(11) In paragraph (1) of regulation 14 (prohibition on the removal of brain and eyes)—

(a) for “aged greater than” there shall be substituted “which was slaughtered or has died at an age greater than”; and

(b) for “(of any age at death)” there shall be substituted “which at the time it was slaughtered or died either had one or more permanent incisor teeth erupted through the gum or was aged more than twelve months”.

(12) In paragraph (9)(b)(ii) of regulation 24 (approved rendering plants), for “class II specified risk material” there shall be substituted “the specified risk material referred to in paragraph (16)”.

(13) The following paragraph is added to regulation 24—

“(16) The specified risk material is—

(a) the head of a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom at an age greater than 6 months except—

(i) the skull (including the brains and eyes), and

(ii) the tongue; and

(b) the material referred to in paragraphs (c) and (d) of the definition of that phrase.”.

(1)

S.R. 1997 No. 552; the relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 1999 No. 157 and S.R. 2000 No. 78

(2)

S.R. 1996 No. 404, as amended by S.R. 1996 No. 506