The TSE (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2005

9.  In regulation 33 (removal of specified risk material from carcases in slaughterhouses)—

(a)for paragraph (1), there is substituted—

(1) When a bovine animal is slaughtered in a slaughterhouse, or slaughtered elsewhere then brought to a slaughterhouse to be dressed for human consumption, the occupier of the slaughterhouse will ensure that—

(a)all specified risk material, excluding the vertebral column, is removed from the carcase as soon as is reasonably practicable after the animal has been slaughtered and before the carcase is presented for inspection pursuant to regulation 35; and

(b)the carcase is consigned to cutting premises licensed under regulation 56(1) as soon as reasonably practicable for the removal of the vertebral column at those premises in accordance with regulation 36(1).;

(b)in paragraph (2)(b), for the words “the head, spleen, ileum and tonsils are” there are substituted “all specified risk material, excluding the spinal cord, is”; and

(c)paragraph (10) is omitted.