12.—(1) The Food Standards Agency may authorise a cutting plant to remove—
(a)those parts of the vertebral column of bovine animals that are specified risk material; or
(b)spinal cord from sheep and goats aged over 12 months at slaughter or which have a permanent incisor erupted through the gum,
if the Agency is satisfied that the provisions of Annex V to the Community TSE Regulation and this Schedule will be complied with.
(2) The procedures in regulations 6, 8, 9 and 10 apply, but all references to the Secretary of State must be construed as references to the Food Standards Agency.