The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (No. 2) Order 1996

Prohibition of sale, supply and use of milk from affected or suspected animals

12.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, no person shall knowingly—

(a) sell or supply for human consumption or for feeding to an animal or poultry;

(b) use in the manufacture of any product for sale or supply for human consumption or for feeding to an animal or poultry; or

(c) feed to an animal or poultry,

any milk which he knows or has reason to suspect has been produced by an affected or a suspected animal.

(2) The prohibitions in paragraph (1) above shall not apply—

(a) to the feeding to its own calf of any milk produced by a cow; or

(b) to the feeding to an animal or poultry of any milk for research purposes in a research establishment under the authority of a licence issued by a veterinary inspector of the Minister and in accordance with any conditions subject to which the licence is issued, or to the sale or supply to a research establishment for such purposes.