1996 No. 962
The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Amendment) Order 1996
Made
Coming into force
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1 of the Animal Health Act 19811, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:
Title and commencement1
This Order may be cited as the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Amendment) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 29th March 1996.
Amendment to the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Order 19912
1
The Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Order 19912 shall be amended in accordance with this article.
2
After article 12 there shall be added the following article—
Mammalian meat and bone meal12A
1
No person shall—
a
knowingly sell or supply for feeding to livestock, fish or equine animals any feedingstuff in which he knows or has reason to suspect any mammalian meat and bone meal has been incorporated;
b
after 4th April 1996 feed to livestock, fish or equine animals any feedingstuff in which he knows or has reason to suspect that any mammalian meat and bone meal has been incorporated.
2
The prohibition in paragraph (1) above shall not apply to the feeding to an animal of any feedingstuff 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 of any feedstuff to a research establishment for such purposes.
3
No person shall use any mammalian meat and bone meal in the preparation of any feedingstuff for livestock, fish or equine animals.
4
No person shall use any mammalian meat and bone meal in the preparation of feedingstuff for any animal in premises where feedingstuff for livestock, fish or equine animals is prepared.
5
In this article—
“livestock” means any creature kept for the production of food, wool, skin or fur or for use in the farming of land;
“mammalian meat and bone meal” means proteinaceous material derived from the whole or part of any dead mammal by a process of crushing, cooking, and grinding.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
(This note is not part of the Order)