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Amendment of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Feeding Stuffs and Surveillance) Regulations 1999

25.—(1) The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Feeding Stuffs and Surveillance) Regulations 1999(1) shall be amended in so far as they apply to Wales in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) In regulation 2(1), after the definition of “premises” there shall be inserted the following definition —“processed animal protein has the same meaning as in the Processed Animal Protein (Wales) Regulations 2001” (2);

(3) In regulation 3, for paragraph (1) there shall be substituted the following paragraph —

(1) An authorised officer, on producing, if so required, a duly authenticated document showing his authority, shall have the right at all reasonable hours to enter any premises and there take such samples —

(a)as are necessary to enable the Official ELISA tests for the identification of ruminant protein in feeding-stuff intended for ruminants to be carried out; or

(b)of any protein, feed or feeding-stuff, whether or not intended for ruminants, as are necessary to enable —

(i)the Official ELISA tests to be carried out for the identification of ruminant protein; or

(ii)tests to be carried out for the identification of processed animal protein, or the identification of any type or description of processed animal protein, in the protein, feed or feeding-stuff..

(1)

S.I. 1999/882.