The Products of Animal Origin (Disease Control) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009

Amendment to the Products of Animal Origin (Disease Control) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

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

(a)for paragraph (8) substitute—

(8) 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—

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