The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006
PART IGENERAL PROVISIONS
1Citation and commencement
2Interpretation
3Appointment of competent authority
4Exception for research
PART IIINTRODUCTION OF SCHEDULES
5The Schedules
PART IIIADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
6Approvals, authorisations, licences and registrations
7Occupier’s duty
8Suspension and amendment
9Revocations of approvals, etc.
10Appeals procedure
11Valuations
12Appointment of inspectors
13Powers of entry
14Powers of inspectors
15Notices
16Notices restricting movement
17Obstruction
18Penalties
19Enforcement
20Revocations
SCHEDULE 1INSTRUMENTS RELEVANT TO COMMUNITY TSE REGULATION
SCHEDULE 2TSE MONITORING
PART IMONITORING FOR TSE
1Notifications for the purposes of monitoring under Article 6 of the Community TSE Regulation
2Consignment and slaughter of an over-age bovine animal
3Brain stem sampling of bovine animals
4Slaughter of bovine animals over 30 months of age
5Retention of products and disposal
6Compensation
PART IICONTENTS OF AN RMOP
1Animal identification and separation
2Brain stem sampling
3Correlation of sample to carcase and all other parts of the body
4Retention of carcases
5Retention of parts of the body
6Disposal before receipt of the result
7Other measures following sampling
8Removal of vertebral column
SCHEDULE 3CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF TSE IN BOVINE ANIMALS
1Control and eradication of TSE - notification
2Restriction of a notified animal
3Slaughter of a suspect animal
4Identification and restriction of offspring and cohorts
5Action following confirmation of BSE
6Action where BSE is not confirmed
7Death while under restriction
8Placing on the market of bovine progeny
9Compensation
10Compensation for a suspect animal
11Compensation for a cohort animal
12Compensation for an offspring animal
13Compensation for Buffalo and Bison
14Assessment of market value
15Definitions
16A return shall be furnished to the Department within 7...
SCHEDULE 4CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF TSE IN SHEEP AND GOATS
1Notification of TSE
2Restriction of a notified animal
3Slaughter of a suspect animal
4Movement restrictions
5Action where TSE is not confirmed
6Confirmation of TSE in sheep
7Confirmation of TSE in goats
8Confirmation of BSE in sheep or goats
9Time for appeals
10Killing and destruction following confirmation
11Infected animals from other premises
12Common grazing
13Multiple flocks on any premises
14Subsequent occupiers
15Introduction of an animal onto any premises
16Use of ovine germinal products
17Movement of an animal from any premises
18Time of movement restrictions
19Death while under restriction
20Placing on the market of progeny of a BSE affected sheep or goat
21Notification while any premises are under restriction
22Derogations
23Compensation for a sheep or goat slaughtered as a suspect animal
24Compensation for animals killed or products destroyed following confirmation of TSE
25Valuations
SCHEDULE 5FEEDINGSTUFFS
PART IRESTRICTIONS ON FEEDING PROTEINS TO ANIMALS
1Prohibition on feeding animal protein to ruminants
2Prohibition on feeding animal protein to non-ruminants
3Exceptions
4Movement prohibitions and restrictions of animals
5Slaughter of an animal
6Compensation
7Slaughter or sale for human consumption
PART IIPRODUCTION OF PROTEIN AND FEEDINGSTUFFS
1Fishmeal for feeding to non-ruminant farmed animals
2Offences relating to fishmeal and feedingstuffs containing fishmeal
3Feedingstuffs containing dicalcium phosphate or tricalcium phosphate for feeding to non-ruminant animals
4Offences relating to feedingstuffs containing dicalcium phosphate or tricalcium phosphate for feeding to non-ruminant animals
5Blood products and blood meal
6Offences relating to feedingstuffs containing blood products or blood meal
7Change in use of equipment
8Conditions applying to the storage and transport of bulk quantities of protein products and feedingstuffs containing such proteins
9Conditions applying to the manufacture and transport of feedingstuffs, including petfood
10Export of processed animal protein to third countries
11Fertilisers
12Record keeping for transport etc. of reject petfood
13Cross-contamination of materials originating from premises where processed animal proteins (except fishmeal) are in use
SCHEDULE 6SPECIFIED RISK MATERIAL, MECHANICALLY RECOVERED MEAT AND SLAUGHTERING TECHNIQUES
1Appointment of the Food Standards Agency as the competent authority
2District council obligations with regards to butcher shops
3Training
4Mechanically recovered meat
5Pithing
6Tongue harvesting
7Head meat harvesting
8Removal of specified risk material
9Bovine animals in a slaughterhouse
10Sheep and goats in a slaughterhouse
11Young lamb and goat stamps
12Removal of spinal cord from sheep and goats
13Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards Agency
14Authorisation and registration of butcher shops by District Councils
15Removal of specified risk material at a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 13(1)
16Removal of bovine vertebral column that is specified risk material at a cutting plant not authorised under paragraph 13(1)(a)
17Removal of bovine vertebral column that is specified risk material at a butcher shop authorised and registered under paragraph 14
18Meat from Great Britain or a member State
19Staining and disposal of specified risk material
20Scheme animals
21Security of specified risk material
22Prohibition on the supply of specified risk material for human consumption
SCHEDULE 7RESTRICTIONS ON DISPATCH TO MEMBER STATES AND TO THIRD COUNTRIES
1Restrictions on dispatch to member States and to third countries
2Exports to third countries
SCHEDULE 8REVOCATIONS

2006 No. 202

ANIMAL HEALTH

The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Made

Coming into operation

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, under the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19721 makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred on it by that section.

It is designated2 for the purposes of that section in relation to measures in the veterinary and phytosanitary fields for the protection of public health.

It has carried out the consultation required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety3.