The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

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

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10.—(1) The occupier of a place—

(a)that, for the purposes of point 4(1)(a) of Annex V, is another place of slaughter; and

(b)in which a bovine animal covered by point 2 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III is slaughtered must—

(i)arrange for the identified head of the animal to be delivered, under licence, to an approved testing laboratory for sampling and testing in accordance with point 1 of Chapter C of Annex X; and

(ii)ensure that the bovine animal from which the head is taken can be identified,

and failure to do so is an offence.

(2) In paragraph (1)(b)(i) “identified” means identified in a manner approved by the Department.