68.—(1) Any person who consigns any specified risk material for transport from any premises shall make on consignment a record of each consignment showing–
(a)the date on which the specified risk material was consigned from the premises;
(b)the quantity and description of the material;
(c)the destination to which it was consigned; and
(d)the name of the haulier transporting it.
(2) Any person who transfers any specified risk material from any part of any premises licensed for the collection, disposal or destruction of any specified risk material to another part of the premises shall make on transfer a record of each transfer showing the date on which the specified risk material was transferred and the quantity and description of the material transferred.
(3) A person who collects any specified risk material from any premises for the purpose of transporting it shall make on collection a record showing–
(a)the address of the premises from which the material was collected;
(b)the date on which the material was collected;
(c)the quantity and description of the material; and
(d)the destination to which it is to be taken,
and shall ensure this record accompanies the specified risk material during transport.
(4) A person who receives any specified risk material collected from any premises shall make on receipt a record showing–
(a)the address of the premises from which the material was collected;
(b)the date on which the material is received;
(c)the quantity and description of the material; and
(d)name and address of the haulier who transported it.
(5) In addition to any records the person is required to make under paragraphs (1) and (4) above, an occupier of rendering premises (other than part-rendering premises) shall make a record of any specified risk material that person renders at the premises showing–
(a)the weight rendered and the date of rendering;
(b)the temperature of the material achieved during rendering;
(c)in a batch system, the period during which the material was rendered;
(d)the particle size to which the material was reduced before rendering;
(e)if appropriate, the pressure to which the by-products are subjected during rendering;
(f)if appropriate, the feed rate of the material;
(g)if appropriate, the fat re-cycling rate;
(h)the quantity and description of rendered material produced;
(i)in the case of all rendered material–
(i)the method of disposal;
(ii)the quantity disposed of;
(iii)the date of disposal;
(iv)the name of the haulier; and
(v)the address of the disposal premises.
(6) In addition to any records the person is required to make under paragraphs (1) and (4) above, an occupier of part-rendering premises shall make a record of any specified risk material that person part-renders at the premises showing–
(a)the weight part-rendered and the date of part-rendering; and
(b)the quantity and description of part-rendered material produced.
(7) Any record required to be made under this regulation shall be kept by or on behalf of the person who is required to make it for a period of not less than two years from the date on which the record is made.
69.—(1) If an inspector suspects that any vehicle, container or premises constitute a disease risk, that inspector may serve a notice on the person in charge of the vehicle or container, or on the occupier of the premises, requiring the vehicle, container or premises to be cleansed and disinfected.
(2) The notice may–
(a)specify the method of cleansing and disinfection;
(b)specify the method of disposal of any specified risk material remaining in the vehicle, container or premises; and
(c)prohibit the movement of specified risk material into the vehicle or container or on to the premises until such time as the required cleansing and disinfection has been satisfactorily completed.
70.—(1) An inspector shall, on producing, if required to do so, some duly authenticated document showing the authority of the inspector, have the right at all reasonable hours to enter any premises (excluding premises used only as a dwelling) to–
(a)ascertain whether any–
(i)TSE susceptible animal; or
(ii)any specified risk material,
is being or has been kept on the premises;
(b)ascertain whether–
(i)any TSE exists or has existed on the premises or any other premises; or
(ii)any animal which is being kept on the premises or has been kept on the premises is, or was at the time it was kept there, affected with any TSE;
(c)collect, pen, inspect and examine any TSE susceptible animal and for this purpose may require the keeper of any such animal to arrange for the collection and penning of the animal;
(d)inspect and examine–
(i)specified risk material; or
(ii)the carcase of TSE susceptible animal;
(e)take such samples from, and make such tests in relation to, any–
(i)TSE susceptible animal;
(ii)carcase of such an animal;
(iii)specified risk material or any other material appearing to that inspector to be derived from an animal;
(iv)food or feedingstuff;
(v)cosmetic, pharmaceutical or medical product,
as that inspector considers necessary;
(f)mark for identification purposes any specified risk material or TSE susceptible animal, or the carcase of such an animal;
(g)serve on the person in charge of a TSE susceptible animal, or the person in possession of the carcase of any such animal or in possession of any specified risk material, a notice–
(i)to restrict or prohibit the movement of the TSE susceptible animal, carcase or specified risk material; or
(ii)in respect of any such carcase or specified risk material, to require the person to dispose of the carcase or specified risk material in the manner and period specified in the notice;
(h)seize any specified risk material, TSE susceptible animal or the carcase of such an animal;
(i)serve a notice requiring any cleansing and disinfection or carry out or cause to be carried out any cleansing and disinfection ;
(j)serve any notice–
(i)in connection with the seizure any specified risk material, TSE susceptible animal or the carcase of such an animal; or
(ii)under regulation 69 above;
(k)inspect–
(i)the premises; or
(ii)any equipment at the premises;
(l)inspect any facility, operation or procedure at the premises, including–
(i)any means of preparing, manufacturing, treating (including subjecting to heat or cold) food or specified risk material; or
(ii)any facility, operation or procedure at the premises in connection with the removal, collection, transport, disposal or destruction of specified risk material;
(m)serve any licence, suspension of a licence, withdrawal of a licence or revocation of a licence under this Part of these Regulations;
(n)serve any direction under regulation 72 below;
(o)examine any record, in whatever form the record may be held, and take copies of the record;
(p)have access to, and check the operation of, any computer and any associated apparatus or material which is or has been used in connection with any record; and for this purpose may require any person who has charge of or who is otherwise concerned with the operation of the computer, apparatus or material to afford to that inspector such assistance as that inspector may reasonably require and, where a record is kept by means of a computer, may require the records to be produced in a form in which they may be taken away; or
(q)ascertain whether there is or has been any contravention of, or failure to comply with, this Part of these Regulations or any evidence of any such contravention or failure.
(2) No person except an inspector shall remove or otherwise interfere with any mark applied under paragraph (1)(f) above.
(3) If a sheriff or justice of the peace, on sworn information in writing–
(a)is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for entry into any premises for any such purpose as is mentioned in paragraph (1) above; and
(b)is satisfied either that–
(i)admission to the premises has been refused or a refusal is apprehended, and that notice of the intention to apply for a warrant has been given to the occupier; or
(ii)an application for admission, or the giving of such a notice, would defeat the object of the entry, or that the case is one of urgency, or that the premises are unoccupied or the occupier temporarily absent,
the sheriff or justice of the peace may by signed warrant authorise an inspector to enter the premises, if need be by using reasonable force.
(4) The occupier of premises entered by an inspector under this regulation or by virtue of a warrant issued under it, and the employees of that occupier and any person on the premises who is or has been in possession or charge of any mammalian meat and bone meal or processed animal protein, or any animal or carcase, which is or has been on the premises, shall–
(a)provide such reasonable facilities to the inspector and comply with such reasonable requirements as the inspector considers necessary for any purpose connected with the administration or enforcement of this Part of these Regulations; and
(b)if required by an inspector, give such information as that occupier possesses as to–
(i)any mammalian meat and bone meal or processed animal protein, or any animal or carcase which is or has been on the premises;
(ii)any animal or carcase with which any mammalian meat and bone meal or processed animal protein, or any animal or carcase, which is or has been on the premises may have come into contact; and
(iii)the location, transport and movement of any mammalian meat and bone meal or processed animal protein, or any animal or carcase, which is or has been in the possession or charge of the occupier.
(5) An inspector entering any premises by virtue of this regulation, or of a warrant issued under it may be accompanied by–
(a)such other person as that inspector considers necessary to give such assistance as that inspector considers necessary; and
(b)a representative of the European Commission acting for the purpose of the Community TSE Regulation or the Community Transitional Measures.
(6) If an inspector enters any unoccupied premises, that inspector shall leave them as effectively secured against unauthorised entry as that inspector found them.
71.—(1) An inspector may serve on any person in whose possession is found any feedingstuff containing specified risk material, except a feedingstuff prepared for use at premises licensed for that use under regulation 56 above, a notice requiring that person to dispose of the material, and any other material with which it has come into contact, in such manner and within such period as may be specified in the notice.
(2) An inspector may serve on any person who has sold or supplied any feedingstuff containing specified risk material a notice requiring that person to collect at their own expense that product from the person to whom that person supplied or sold it, or from such other person to whom it may have subsequently been supplied or sold, and to transport it to such place and within such time as may be specified in the notice.
(3) If any person on whom a notice is served under paragraph (1) or (2) above fails to comply with the requirements of the notice, an inspector may, without prejudice to any proceedings arising out of such default, carry out or cause to be carried out the requirements of the notice.
(4) The amount of any expenses reasonably incurred by or on behalf of an inspector acting pursuant to paragraph (3) above shall be recoverable as a debt by that inspector or by any person under whose authority that inspector is acting from the person who was in default of the notice, unless that person took all reasonable steps to comply with the notice.
72.—(1) If the Scottish Ministers or the Agency are satisfied that specified risk material cannot be disposed of under the provisions of these Regulations, whether for reasons of mechanical breakdown of equipment or otherwise, the Scottish Ministers or the Agency may give written directions to the owner or person in control of the specified risk material for its disposal in a safe manner in accordance with the conditions of the derogation in point 8 of Part A of Annex XI to the Community TSE Regulation, and the person to whom such directions are given shall comply with them.
(2) In the event of any person not complying with those directions, the Scottish Ministers or the Agency may make arrangements for the disposal of the specified risk material at the expense of the owner or person in control of the material.
73.—(1) Any notice served under this Part of these Regulations shall be complied with at the expense of the person on whom the notice is served.
(2) If a notice served under this Part of these Regulations is not complied with, an inspector may arrange for it to be complied with at the expense of the person on whom the notice is served.
74. The occupier of any slaughterhouse where specified risk material is removed from carcases pursuant to this regulation shall arrange or establish in consultation with an OVS a staff training programme to train staff to comply with those requirements of this Part of these Regulations which they perform on those premises.
75.—(1) An occupier of any premises used for the purposes of a business in course of which any commercial operation with respect to food or food sources is carried out shall take all practicable steps to secure compliance by any of the employees of that occupier with the provisions of these Regulations which apply to those operations in relation to those premises.
(2) In this regulation “commercial operation” and “food source” have the same meanings as in the Food Safety Act 1990 M1.
76.—(1) The following provisions of the Food Safety Act 1990 shall apply for the purposes of this Part of these Regulations as they apply for the purposes of sections 8, 14 or 15 of that Act and any reference in them to the Act shall be construed as a reference to this Part of these Regulations–
(a)section 9 (inspection and seizure of suspected food), subject to the modification that it shall apply to an inspector as it applies to an authorised officer of a food authority;
(b)section 30(8) (evidence of certificate of analysis or examination); and
(c)section 44 (protection of officers acting in good faith), subject to the modifications that it shall apply to a person appointed as an inspector for the purpose of these Regulations by a local authority or the Agency as it applies to an authorised officer of a food authority.
(2) On an inspection for the purposes of this Part of these Regulations of any food intended for human consumption an inspector may certify that the food fails to comply with a provision of this Part.
(3) Where any food is certified as mentioned in paragraph (2) above it may be treated for the purposes of section 9 of the Food Safety Act 1990 as failing to comply with food safety requirements.