Animal By-Products (Identification) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend the Animal By-Products (Identification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R.1999 No. 418, as already amended – “the 1999 Regulations”), which currently make provision for the sterilisation or staining of animal by-products and for the control of the movement of such by-products.

The effect of the amendments made to the 1999 Regulations by paragraphs (2)(c), (4), (6)(a), (b), (c), (e) and (f), (7)(a) and (b)(ii), (8), (9), and (10) of regulation 2 of these Regulations is that animal by-products may no longer be sterilised. Staining is now required in all cases except where specified in regulation 5(2), 6(2) or 7(2) of the 1999 Regulations. The effect of the amendments made to regulations 6(2) and 7(2) of the 1999 Regulations by paragraphs (6)(d) and (g) and (7)(b)(i) and (c) respectively of regulation 2 of these Regulations is that staining is not required where an animal by-product is immediately conveyed in the manner specified in regulation 6(4) or, as the case may be, 7(3) of the 1999 Regulations to premises approved under Article 7 of the Animal By-Products Order (Northern Ireland) 2002 for rendering there or to other premises for incineration there in accordance with Article 12 of that Order.

Regulation 2(2)(a) of these Regulations amends the interpretation provision of the 1999 Regulations by substituting for the definition denoting the Animal By-Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 a new definition denoting the Animal By-Products Order (Northern Ireland) 2002, regulation 2(2)(b) of these Regulations inserts a definition of “approved premises” into that interpretation provision, and regulation 2(5) of these Regulations substitutes references to the definition denoting the Animal By-Products Order (Northern Ireland) 2002 for the references to the definition denoting the Animal By-Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 in regulation 5(2)(d) and (e) of the 1999 Regulations.

A minor amendment is also made by regulation 2(3) of these Regulations to the definition of “animal by-product” in regulation 3(1) of the 1999 Regulations.