The Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005, and shall come into operation on 14th March 2005.

2.  The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(1) shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Amendments to the Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995

3.—(1) The Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995(2) are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) For paragraph (2)(b) of regulation 13 (general conditions) there shall be substituted the following –

“(b) poultry meat which –

(i) has not been eviscerated or has been obtained from the body of any bird which has not been eviscerated, or

(ii) has been treated with an agent used specifically to promote water retention or has been obtained in technologically similar conditions and is likely as a result to present the same risk; or”.

(3) For paragraph (9) of regulation 13 there shall be substituted the following paragraph –

“(9) Paragraph (2)(b)(i) shall not apply to partially eviscerated poultry (“effilé”).”.

Consequential amendment

4.  In the Products of Animal Origin (Import and Export) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998(3) in Schedule 2 (Regulations relevant to intra-Community trade) there shall be inserted at the end of paragraph 4

• “S.R. 2002 No. 217

• S.R. 2005 No. 35”

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on 10th February 2005.

L.S.

Noel McCann

A senior officer of the

Department of Health Social Services and Public Safety