(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Beef (Emergency Control) Order 1996 (S.I.1996/961) (as amended) so as to allow reference to be made to cattle birth record documents (in addition to national administrative documents) to establish the age of bovine animals with more than one pair of incisors, for the purposes of determining whether meat from such animals may be sold for human consumption (article 2(3)).
It also replaces article 2(2) with a provision to exempt from the scope of the Order the meat of bovine animals that were born, reared and slaughtered in any of the countries in the Schedule to the Order (article 2(3)).
A Compliance Cost Assessment in relation to these Regulations has been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament and copies can be obtained from the Animal Health (Disease Control) Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, G overnment Buildings, Hook Rise South, Tolworth, Surbiton, Surrey, KT6 7NF.