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

Prohibition on removal of brain or eyes

6.  For Article 9 there shall be substituted the following Article—

9.  A person shall not remove the brain or eyes from the carcase of a bovine animal which at the time it was slaughtered or died was aged over six months, or from a carcase of a sheep or goat which at the time it was slaughtered or died either had one or more permanent incisor teeth erupted through the gum or was aged more than 12 months except—

(a)for the purposes of veterinary or scientific examination or research; and

(b)in a part of the premises kept free at all times from food, feedingstuffs and any cosmetic, pharmaceutical or medical product..