The Foot-and-Mouth Disease Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006

Fresh meat etc. produced on premises in a surveillance zone

4.—(1) This paragraph applies to fresh meat, minced meat, mechanically separated meat and meat preparations derived from susceptible animals and produced on premises in a surveillance zone.

(2) A person shall not sell or consign for sale meat to which this paragraph applies or move such meat out of a surveillance zone unless it has been produced in an establishment which—

(a) is authorised by a licence granted by the Department imposing such conditions as it considers necessary to ensure strict veterinary control of the establishment;

(b) processes only meat which complies with sub-paragraph (3);

(c) at all times during the production process stores, identifies and transports products eligible for despatch outside the surveillance zone separately from those which are not and in accordance with the directions of the Department.

(3) Meat complies with this sub-paragraph if—

(a) it was either—

(i) produced from an animal transported to the slaughterhouse from the surveillance zone and it falls within sub-paragraph 3(4), 3(5) or 3(6) of this Part, or

(ii) produced from an animal reared and slaughtered outside a surveillance zone and its associated protection zone; or

(iii) produced from an animal transported to the slaughterhouse from a protection zone under the authority of a licence granted under paragraph 3(2)(e) of Part II of this Schedule; and

(b) it is health marked or identification marked.