Amendment to the Products of Animal Origin (Disease Control) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 20084

In regulation 3 (Restricted animal, restricted poultry and restricted meat: definitions)—

a

for paragraph (8) substitute—

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Subject to paragraph (9) “restricted meat” is meat—

a

produced on or after the date that the protection zone or surveillance zone was declared, or an earlier date where the Department specifies such a date for the purpose of disease control;

b

from a restricted animal or restricted poultry from an infected area, a protection zone or a surveillance zone; and

c

includes meat that has come into contact with such meat.

b

after paragraph (8) insert—

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Where restricted meat has been treated in accordance with Schedule 2 at a treatment centre it ceases to be regarded as restricted meat.