Ovine and caprine animals in a slaughterhouseE+W
9.—(1) When an ovine or caprine animal is slaughtered in a slaughterhouse or the carcase of an ovine or caprine animal is transported to a slaughterhouse following emergency slaughter elsewhere, the occupier of the slaughterhouse must remove all specified risk material from the carcase (other than the spinal cord) as soon as is reasonably practicable after slaughter and in any event before post-mortem inspection.
(2) The occupier must—
(a)as soon as reasonably practicable after post-mortem inspection, consign any offal that has been removed from the carcase and that contains or is attached to specified risk material to an appropriate area of the slaughterhouse; and
(b)as soon as reasonably practicable after the offal is consigned there and in any event before the offal is removed from the slaughterhouse, remove the specified risk material.
(3) In the case of an ovine or caprine animal aged over 12 months at slaughter, or that has a permanent incisor erupted through the gum, the occupier must as soon as is reasonably practicable after slaughter—
(a)remove the spinal cord at the slaughterhouse without delay [F1before] the post-mortem inspection; or
(b)send the meat to—
(i)a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 13(1)(b); [F2or]
(ii)a cutting plant located in another part of the United Kingdom and authorised under the corresponding provision applicable in that part[F3.]
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(4) Failure to comply with this paragraph is an offence.
Textual Amendments
F1Word in Sch. 7 para. 9(3)(a) substituted (28.3.2019) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/366), regs. 1(2), 2
F2Word in Sch. 7 para. 9(3)(b)(i) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Animal By-Products and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/94), regs. 1(2), 3(4)(c)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F3Sch. 7 para. 9(3)(b)(ii): full stop substituted for word (31.12.2020) by The Animal By-Products and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/94), regs. 1(2), 3(4)(c)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)