The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART I GENERAL PROVISIONS

    1. 1.Citation and commencement

    2. 2.Interpretation

    3. 3.Appointment of competent authority

    4. 4.Exception for research

  3. PART II TSE CONTROLS

    1. 5.TSE requirements

    2. 6.The Schedules

  4. PART III ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT

    1. 7.Approvals, authorisations, licences and registrations

    2. 8.Occupier's duty

    3. 9.Suspension and amendment of official documents

    4. 10.Revocations of official documents

    5. 11.Appeals

    6. 12.Valuations

    7. 13.Appointment of inspectors

    8. 14.Powers of entry

    9. 15.Powers of inspectors

    10. 16.Notices

    11. 17.Notices restricting movement

    12. 18.Obstruction

    13. 19.Penalties

    14. 20.Enforcement

    15. 21.Consequential amendment

    16. 22.Revocation

    17. 23.Transitional Provisions

  5. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      TSE REQUIREMENTS

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      TSE MONITORING

      1. 1.Notification of the body of a caprine animal for the purpose of monitoring under Article 6

      2. 2.Arrangements in respect of the body of a bovine animal for the purpose of monitoring under Article 6

      3. 3.Persons collecting and delivering the body of a bovine animal

      4. 4.Brain stem sampling of the body of a bovine animal (Approved TSE sampling sites)

      5. 5.Destruction without sampling

      6. 6.Retention and disposal of the body of a bovine animal pending test results

      7. 7.Remote Areas

      8. 8.Consignment and slaughter of an over-age bovine animal

      9. 9.Brain stem sampling of bovine animals (slaughterhouses)

      10. 10.Brain stem sampling of the body of a bovine animal (other places of slaughter)

      11. 11.Approval of laboratories

      12. 12.Approved TSE sampling sites

      13. 13.Retention of products and disposal

      14. 14.TSE sampling of ovine, caprine and cervine animals

      15. 15.Compensation

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF TSE IN BOVINE ANIMALS

      1. 1.Control and eradication of TSE - notification

      2. 2.Restriction of a notified animal

      3. 3.Slaughter of a suspect animal

      4. 4.Identification and restriction of offspring and cohorts

      5. 5.Action following confirmation of TSE

      6. 6.Action where TSE is not confirmed

      7. 7.Death while under restriction

      8. 8.Prohibitions from placing on the market of bovine progeny

      9. 9.When compensation is payable

      10. 10.Compensation for a suspect animal

      11. 11.Compensation for a cohort animal

      12. 12.Compensation for an offspring animal

      13. 13.Compensation for Buffalo and Bison

      14. 14.Assessment of market value

      15. 15.Definitions

      16. 16.Returns

    4. SCHEDULE 4

      CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF TSE IN OVINE AND CAPRINE ANIMALS

      1. 1.Notification of TSE

      2. 2.Restriction of a notified animal

      3. 3.Slaughter of a suspect animal

      4. 4.Movement restrictions

      5. 5.Action where TSE is not confirmed

      6. 6.Confirmation of a TSE other than BSE or atypical scrapie in ovine or caprine animals

      7. 7.Use of milk or milk products following confirmation of classical scrapie

      8. 8.Inability to exclude BSE in ovine or caprine animals

      9. 9.Confirmation of atypical scrapie in ovine or caprine animals

      10. 10.Derogation

      11. 11.Time for appeals

      12. 12.Killing and destruction following confirmation

      13. 13.Infected animals from other premises

      14. 14.Common grazing

      15. 15.Multiple flocks on any premises

      16. 16.Change of occupier

      17. 17.Introduction of an animal onto any premises

      18. 18.Use of ovine germinal products

      19. 19.Movement of an animal from any premises

      20. 20.Time of movement restrictions

      21. 21.Death while under restriction

      22. 22.Prohibitions from placing on the market of progeny of a BSE affected ovine or caprine animal

      23. 23.Compensation for animals killed or products destroyed following confirmation of TSE

      24. 24.Valuations

      25. 25.Compensation for milk or milk products compulsorily destroyed in accordance with paragraph 8

    5. SCHEDULE 5

      CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF TSE IN ANIMALS OTHER THAN BOVINE, OVINE OR CAPRINE ANIMALS

      1. 1.Notification

      2. 2.Restriction of a notified animal

      3. 3.Slaughter of a suspect animal

      4. 4.Compensation for an animal that is not bovine, ovine or caprine slaughtered as a suspect animal

    6. SCHEDULE 6

      FEEDINGSTUFFS

      1. 1.Prohibition on feeding animal protein to ruminants

      2. 2.Prohibition on feeding animal protein to non-ruminants

      3. 3.Movement prohibitions and restrictions of animals

      4. 4.Slaughter of an animal

      5. 5.Compensation

      6. 6.Slaughter or sale for human consumption

    7. SCHEDULE 7

      SPECIFIED RISK MATERIAL, MECHANICALLY SEPARATED MEAT AND SLAUGHTERING TECHNIQUES

      1. 1.Appointment of the Food Standards Agency as the competent authority

      2. 2.Training

      3. 3.Mechanically separated meat

      4. 4.Pithing

      5. 5.Tongue harvesting

      6. 6.Head meat harvesting

      7. 7.Removal of specified risk material

      8. 8.Bovine animals in a slaughterhouse

      9. 9.Ovine and caprine animals in a slaughterhouse

      10. 10.Bovine, ovine and caprine animals, in other places of slaughter

      11. 11.Young lamb and goat stamps

      12. 12.Removal of spinal cord from ovine and caprine animals

      13. 13.Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards Agency

      14. 14.Removal of specified risk material at a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 13(1)

      15. 15.Meat from a member State

      16. 16.Staining and disposal of specified risk material

      17. 17.Security of specified risk material

      18. 18.Prohibition on the sale, supply or possession for sale or supply of specified risk material for human consumption

    8. SCHEDULE 8

      RESTRICTIONS ON PLACING ON THE MARKET AND EXPORT

      1. 1.Placing on the market or export to third countries of bovine products

      2. 2.Placing on the market or export to third countries of bovine animals

      3. 3.Export to a member State of heads and un-split carcases

      4. 4.Export to third countries of products containing specified risk material

      5. 5.Further offences relating to placing on the market and export

  7. Explanatory Note