8.—(1) When a bovine animal is slaughtered in a slaughterhouse or the carcase of a bovine animal is transported to a slaughterhouse following emergency slaughter elsewhere, the occupier of the slaughterhouse must remove all specified risk material [F1from the carcase] (other than those parts of the vertebral column that are specified risk material F2...) as soon as is reasonably practicable after slaughter and in any event before post-mortem inspection.
(2) The occupier must—
(a)as soon as reasonably practicable after post mortem inspection, consign any offal that has been removed from the carcase and that contains or is attached to specified risk material to an appropriate area of the slaughterhouse; and
(b)as soon as reasonably practicable after the offal is consigned there and in any event before the offal is removed from the slaughterhouse, remove the specified risk material [F3from the remaining offal].
(3) The occupier must as soon as is reasonably practicable after slaughter consign any meat containing those parts of the vertebral column that are specified risk material to—
(a)a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 13(1)(a);
(b)a cutting plant located in another part of the United Kingdom and authorised under the corresponding provision applicable in that part; or
(c)[F4a] Member State in accordance with point 10.2 of Annex V to the EU TSE Regulation (rules on trade and export).
F5(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[F6(5) In accordance with point 11.3(a) of Annex V to the EUTSE Regulation, when the removal of the vertebral column is required, carcases or wholesale cuts of carcases of bovine animals containing vertebral column must be identified by a clearly visible red stripe on the label referred to in that point.]
(6) Failure to comply with this paragraph is an offence.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in sch. 7 para. 8(1) inserted (23.5.2019) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/118), regs. 1, 9(4)(a)(i)
F2Words in sch. 7 para. 8(1) omitted (23.5.2019) by virtue of The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/118), regs. 1, 9(4)(a)(ii)
F3Words in sch. 7 para. 8(2)(b) inserted (23.5.2019) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/118), regs. 1, 9(4)(b)
F4Word in sch. 7 para. 8(3)(c) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Health (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/71), regs. 1(1)(b), 27(6)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F5Sch. 7 para. 8(4) omitted (23.5.2019) by virtue of The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/118), regs. 1, 9(4)(c)