The Specified Risk Material Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2000

Amendments to the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997

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

(2) In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 (interpretation) the definitions of “class I specified risk material”, “class II specified risk material” and “intestines” are omitted.

(3) In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 the following definition is substituted for the definition of “specified risk material”–

• ““specified risk material” means–

  (a)

  specified bovine material;

  (b)

  specified sheep or goat material;

  (c)

  any part of the animal remaining attached to the specified bovine material or specified sheep or goat material after dissection of the carcase;

  (d)

  any animal material which comes into contact with specified bovine material or specified sheep or goat material after it has been removed from the carcase; and

  (e)

  specified solid waste;”.

(4) In paragraph (1) of regulation 3 (specified sheep or goat material) the phrase “class I” is omitted.

(5) Paragraph (2) of regulation 3 is omitted.

(6) In paragraph (3) of regulation 3–

(a) the phrase “class II” is omitted; and

(b) the words “or incinerated” are inserted between “rendered” and “whole”.

(7) The following regulation is substituted for regulation 4 (specified bovine material)–

“Specified bovine material

4.— (1) In these Regulations, “specified bovine material” means–

(a) the following material derived from a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom or Portugal at an age greater than 6 months–

(i) the entire head (excluding the tongue but including the brains, eyes, trigeminal ganglia and tonsils),

(ii) the thymus,

(iii) the spleen,

(iv) the intestines from the duodenum to the rectum, and

(v) the spinal cord;

(b) in relation to a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom or Portugal at an age greater than 30 months, the vertebral column (including dorsal root ganglia); and

(c) the following material derived from a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died at an age greater than 12 months, elsewhere than in the United Kingdom, Portugal, Australia or New Zealand–

(i) the skull (including the brains and eyes),

(ii) the tonsils,

(iii) the spinal cord, and

(iv) the ileum.

(2) Whole carcases of bovine animals are specified bovine material if they are removed to be rendered or incinerated whole from the place where they were slaughtered or died.

(3) In paragraph (1) above, the reference to Portugal does not include a reference to the Autonomous Region of the Azores.”.

(8) The following paragraph is added to regulation 10–

“12.   Nothing in paragraph (1) above shall require the removal of the vertebral column from the carcase of a bovine animal which was accompanied at the time of slaughter by a slaughter certificate under the Beef Assurance Scheme as described in Schedule 1 to the Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) (No. 2) Regulations 1996(2) if the carcase is consigned to a licensed cutting premises which, if located in Scotland, is authorised pursuant to regulation 15A(5) below.”

(9) Regulation 12 (rendering whole carcases) is revoked.

(10) In regulation 14 (prohibition on the removal of brains and eyes)–

(a) the words “which was slaughtered or has died at an age greater than” are substituted for the words “aged over”; and

(b) the words “which at the time it was slaughtered or died either had one or more permanent incisor teeth erupted through the gum or was aged more than 12 months” are substituted for the words “(of any age at death)”.

(11) The following regulation is inserted after regulation 15–

“Removal of vertebral column of bovine animals in cutting premises

15A.— (1) Where a carcase or bone in carcase meat is consigned to a cutting premises in Scotland in accordance with regulation 10(12) above the occupier of that cutting premises shall ensure that the vertebral column is removed from the rest of the carcase.

(2) The occupier of a cutting premises shall permit an inspector or official veterinary surgeon, or a person acting under the responsibility of either of them, to inspect the carcase of any bovine animal consigned there so that it can be checked whether the specified risk material has been removed from the carcase in accordance with these Regulations; and the occupier shall give to any such person such reasonable assistance as he shall require.

(3) If the vertebral column is removed at cutting premises, the occupier shall ensure that it is stained in accordance with regulation 10(3) above, and disposed of as specified risk material in accordance with these Regulations.

(4) The Agency may, on an application made to it under this regulation, authorise any licensed cutting premises for the purposes of this regulation.

(5) In considering applications for authorisation for the purposes of this regulation the Agency may (in addition to any other relevant matters) have regard to the need for the efficient enforcement of this regulation.”

(12) In paragraph (9)(b)(ii) of regulation 24 (approved rendering plants) the words “the specified risk material referred to in paragraph (17) below” are substituted for the words “class II specifiedrisk material”.

(13) The following paragraph is added to regulation 24–

“(17) For the purposes of this regulation, the specified risk material is–

(a) the head of a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom at an age greater than 6 months except–

(i) the skull (including the brains and eyes), and

(ii) the tongue; and

(b) the material referred to in paragraphs (c) and (d) of the definition of specified risk material in regulation 2(1) above.”.

(1)

S.I. 1997/2965, amended in relation to the whole of Great Britain by S.I. 1998/2405 (itself amended by S.I. 1998/2431) and S.I. 1999/539 and amended in relation to Scotland by S.S.I. 2000/62.

(2)

S.I. 1998/2097, amended by S.I. 1996/2522