Amendment of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Feedingstuffs and Surveillance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999
22.—(1) The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Feedingstuffs and Surveillance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999(1) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2) In regulation 2(1), after the definition of “premises” there shall be inserted the following definition—
““processed animal protein” has the same meaning as in the Processed Animal Protein (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2001(2);”.
(3) In regulation 3, for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—
“(1) An authorised officer may, on producing if so required, a duly authenticated document showing his authority, at all reasonable hours enter any premises and there take such samples—
(a)as are necessary to enable the Official ELISA tests for the identification of ruminant protein in feeding stuff intended for ruminants to be carried out; or
(b)of any protein, feed or feeding stuff, whether or not intended for ruminants, as are necessary to enable—
(i)the Official ELISA tests to be carried out for the identification of ruminant protein; or
(ii)tests to be carried out for the identification of processed animal protein, or the identification of any type or description of processed animal protein,
in the protein, feed or feeding stuff.”.
(4) In regulation 4(4) for “information” there shall be substituted “complaint”.