The Specified Risk Material (Inspection Charges) Regulations 1999

Amendments to the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997

5.—(1) The Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) The following paragraph shall be inserted after paragraph (10) of regulation 10 (initial treatment of bovine, sheep and goat carcases in a slaughterhouse)–

“(11) No person shall sell the carcase of any ruminant animal for human consumption unless it has been subjected to the controls specified in–

(a) paragraph (9) above; or

(b) (in the case of the carcase of any sheep or goat consigned to an authorised slaughterhouse or to authorised cutting premises pursuant to paragraph (2)(b) above) regulation 15(4) below,

and found to comply with the requirements of these Regulations.”.

(3) The following regulation shall be inserted after regulation 31 (enforcement)–

“Withdrawal of inspections and supervision and suspension of authorisations

31A.— (1) Where the Minister has had judgment entered against the occupier or owner of any slaughterhouse or any authorised cutting premises for any sum for which that person is jointly and severally liable as a debt owed to the Minister under paragraph (2) of regulation 3 of the Specified Risk Material (Inspection Charges) Regulations 1999 and the occupier or owner concerned fails within a reasonable time to satisfy the judgment the Minister may, without prejudice to any other legal remedy open to him–

(a) (where the debt owed has arisen in respect of any inspections and controls carried out at a slaughterhouse in accordance with paragraph (9) of regulation 10 above) refuse to carry out any further inspections and controls at that slaughterhouse in accordance with that paragraph; and

(b) (where the debt owed has arisen in respect of any inspections carried out at an authorised slaughterhouse or at authorised cutting premises in accordance with paragraph (4) of regulation 15 above) suspend the authorisation of the slaughterhouse or cutting premises concerned,

in each case until such time as the judgment has been satisfied.

(2) In paragraph (1) above (insofar as it applies to Scotland)–

(a) the reference to the Minister having had judgment entered against the occupier or owner of a slaughterhouse or authorised cutting premises is a reference to the Minister having obtained decree against such an occupier or owner; and

(b) the references to a given judgment are references to the particular decree which is referred to earlier in that paragraph by virtue of the operation of sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph.”.