The Beef Bones (Scotland) Regulations 1999

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations revoke the Beef Bones Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2959) (regulation 10) in so far as they apply to Scotland. Those Regulations principally prohibited the sale of bone-in beef or its use in the preparation of food.

These Regulations–

(a) prohibit the use of bone-in beef in the commercial preparation of food or ingredients unless in the production of food sold at the premises, where the preparation took place, direct to the ultimate consumer (regulation 3);

(b) prohibit the sale or use of any bone removed from bone-in beef deboned in Great Britain for the production of a food or ingredient unless sold at the premises where the production took place, direct to the ultimate consumer (regulation 4);

(c) prohibit the sale or use of any ingredient in food made from such a bone or any substance derived from such a bone unless sold direct to the ultimate consumer at the premises where the ingredient or substance was produced (regulation 5);

(d) make provision for the storage of such bones or substances derived from them in food (regulation 6);

(e) make provision for records of consignments of bones (regulation 7);

(f) create offences and penalties (regulation 8);

(g) apply certain provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990 (regulation 9);

(h) make provisions for enforcement by the Scottish Ministers or a food authority (regulation 10).