Any of the following processes, unless falling within a description in another Section of the Schedule or an exempt process, namely, the processing in any way whatsoever, storing or drying by the application of heal of any dead animal (or part thereof) or any plant or plant product (or part thereof) where the process may result in the release into water of a substance described in Schedule 5: but excluding any process for the treatment of effluent so as to permit its discharge into controlled waters or into a sewer unless the treatment process involves the drying of any material with a view to its use as an animal feedstuff.
Any process mentioned in Part A, of this Section unless an exempt process—
where the process may not result in the release into water of any substance described in Schedule 5; but
may release into the air a substance described in Schedule 4 or any offensive smell noticeable outside the premises on which the process is carried on.
Breeding maggots in any case where 5 kg or more of animal or of vegetable matter or, in aggregate, of both are introduced into the process in any week.
In this Section—
“animal” includes a bird or a fish; and
“exempt process” means—
any process carried on on a farm or agricultural holding other than the manufacture of goods for sale;
the manufacture or preparation of food or drink for human consumption but excluding—
the extraction, distillation or purification of animal or vegetable oil or fat otherwise than as a process incidental to the cooking of food for human consumption;
any process involving the use of green offal or the boiling of blood except the cooking of food (other than tripe) for human consumption;
the cooking of tripe for human consumption elsewhere than on premises on which it is to be consumed; and
“green offal” means the stomach and intestines of any animal, other than poultry or fish, and their contents.