Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Order (Northern Ireland) 1999

Milk from affected or suspected animals

10.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3) a person shall not knowingly—

(a) sell or supply for feeding to animals or poultry; or

(b) use in the manufacture of any product for sale or supply for feeding to animals or poultry,

any milk which he knows or has reason to suspect has been produced by an affected or a suspected animal.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a person shall not feed to any animal or poultry any milk which he knows or has reason to suspect has been produced by an affected or suspected animal.

(3) The prohibitions in paragraphs (1) and (2) shall not apply—

(a) to the feeding to its own calf of any milk produced by a cow; or

(b) to the feeding to any animal or poultry of any milk for research purposes in a research establishment, or to the sale or supply to any person of milk for such purposes under and in accordance with the conditions of a licence granted by the Department.

(4) A person shall not remove any milk, which he knows or has reason to suspect has come from an affected or suspected animal, from the premises on which that animal was milked except under the authority of and in accordance with the conditions of a licence granted by the Department.