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1. These Regulations may be cited as the Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 8th February 2001.
2.—(1) The Specified Risk Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997(1) are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).
(2) The following paragraph is substituted for paragraph (1) of regulation 4 (specified bovine material)—
“(1) In these Regulations, “specified bovine material” means—
(a)the intestines from the duodenum to the rectum of any bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died elsewhere than in Australia or New Zealand;
(b)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 spinal cord, and
(v)in the case of such an animal which was slaughtered or has died at an age greater than 30 months (other than one 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 at an age greater than 12 months elsewhere than in the United Kingdom, Portugal, Australia or New Zealand—
(i)the skull (including the brains and eyes),
(ii)the tonsils, and
(iii)the spinal cord.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 7th February 2001.
L.S.
John McGrath
Senior Officer of the
Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety
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