The Carcase Classification and Price Reporting Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

Licence for automated grading

10.—(1) The Department may grant to the operator of an approved slaughterhouse a licence authorising the use of automated grading equipment for classification of bovine carcases at that slaughterhouse, if the Department is satisfied on the application of the operator for such a license that the equipment and the manner of its operation would meet the standards required by Article 9(b) and 10(2) (read with Part A of Annex IV) of the Commission Delegated Regulation.

(2) The licence may be made subject to such terms and conditions as are necessary to ensure compliance with those standards.

(3) In addition to the power to revoke a licence in the circumstances mentioned in Article 4(2) of the Commission Implementing Regulation (incorrect classification, presentations or identifications), the Department may suspend or revoke a licence granted to an operator under this regulation if—

(a) the operator has contravened any of the terms or conditions of the licence; or

(b) the Department considers that the automated grading equipment no longer meets the standards required by the Commission Delegated Regulation, whether for reasons connected with the equipment itself or with the operator’s manner of operation of the equipment.

(4) Where the Department takes any decision in relation to a licence under this regulation which gives rise to a right to appeal under regulation 11, the Department must—

(a) inform the person of the decision in writing;

(b) give the reasons; and

(c) explain that there is a right of appeal to a magistrates’ court.