Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1998 No. 69

FOOD

Food Hygiene

Meat (Sterilisation and Staining) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998

Made

4th March 1998

Coming into operation

1st April 1998

Whereas it appears to the Department of Agriculture acting as the Department concerned that it is necessary or expedient—

(a)for the purpose of ensuring that food complies with food safety requirements and in the interests of public health; and

(b)for the purpose of protecting or promoting the interests of consumers,

to make the following Regulations;

Now therefore, the said Department concerned, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 15(1) and (3) and 47(2) of, and paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 to, the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991(1) and of every power enabling it in that behalf, and after consultation, in accordance with Article 47(3) of the said Order, with such organisations as appear to it to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the Regulations, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Meat (Sterilisation and Staining) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 1st April 1998.

Amendment of the Meat (Sterilisation and Staining) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989

2.  Regulation 3 of the Meat (Sterilisation and Staining) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989(2) shall be amended by omitting the word “and” after paragraph (d) and by inserting after paragraph (e) the following words—

“and

(f)meat which is derived from a bovine animal which has been slaughtered for human consumption and has been shown to be more than 2½ years of age at the time of slaughter but was not accompanied, at the time of slaughter, by a slaughter certificate issued under regulation 5(1) of the Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(3) or a scheme made by the Department of Agriculture which provides an exception to the prohibition of sale of meat from bovine animals which are older than that age at slaughter,”.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture on

L.S.

Liam McKibben

Assistant Secretary

1st April 1998.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend regulation 3 of the Meat (Sterilisation and Staining) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989. The amendment adds to the list of meat presumed, for the purposes of those Regulations, to be unfit for human consumption, meat derived from a bovine animal which has been slaughtered for human consumption and has been shown to be more than 2½ years of age at the time of slaughter, but which was not accompanied, at the time of slaughter, by a slaughter certificate issued under regulation 5(1) of the Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 or a scheme which provides an exception to the prohibition of sale of meat from older bovine animals.

(1)

S.I. 1991/762 (N.I. 7) as amended by S.I. 1996/1933 (N.I 12). See Article 2(2) for the definitions of “the Department concerned” and “regulations”