Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001

Specified sheep or goat material and specified bovine material

4.—(1) In Article 3—

(a) in paragraph (1), the phrase “class I” shall be deleted; and

(b) paragraph (2) is revoked.

(2) For Article 4, there shall be substituted the following Article—

“4.— (1) In this Order “specified bovine material” means—

(a) the intestines from the duodenum to the rectum of any bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died elsewhere than in Australia or New Zealand;

(b) the following material derived from a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom or Portugal at an age greater than 6 months—

(i) the entire head (excluding the tongue but including the brains, eyes, trigeminal ganglia and tonsils);

(ii) the thymus;

(iii) the spleen;

(iv) the spinal cord; and

(c) in relation to a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died at an age greater than 30 months (other than a bovine animal which was accompanied at the time of slaughter by a slaughter certificate issued under the Beef Assurance Scheme as described in Schedule 1 to the Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(1)), the vertebral column (including dorsal root ganglia); and

(d) the following material derived from a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died, at an age greater than 12 months, elsewhere than in the United Kingdom, Portugal, Australia or New Zealand —

(i) the skull (including the brains and eyes);

(ii) the tonsils; and

(iii) the spinal cord.

(2) In this Article, the references to Portugal do not include a reference to the Autonomous Region of the Azores.”.

(1)

S.R. 1996 No. 404 as amended by S.R. 1996 No. 506