Amendment of the Specified Risk Material Regulations 19972

1

The Specified Risk Material Regulations 19972 are amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

2

In paragraph (4) of regulation 24 (approved rendering plants), for the words “Without prejudice to the storage requirements of regulation 28 below,” there shall be substituted the words “Subject to paragraph (4A) below, and without prejudice to the storage requirements of regulation 28 below,”.

3

After paragraph (4) of regulation 24 there shall be inserted the following paragraphs:–

4A

The operator of an approved rendering plant may keep, handle, store or render specified risk material at the plant together with other material at the plant provided that–

a

all of that material is kept, handled, stored and rendered at the plant in accordance with the requirements of these Regulations applying to specified risk material; and

b

the operator keeps a record for a period of not less than two years of the exact quantity of the specified risk material and the other material together with which the specified risk material is kept, handled, stored and rendered.

4B

For the purposes of these Regulations, references to specified risk material shall include references to any–

a

specified risk material kept, handled, stored or rendered together with other material; and

b

any other material together with which the specified risk material is kept, handled, stored or rendered.

4

After paragraph (9) of regulation 24 there shall be inserted the following paragraph:–

9A

An operator of an approved rendering plant shall ensure that no specified risk material–

a

is consigned from the plant for disposal by burial; or

b

is disposed of by burial,

unless it has been processed at the plant in accordance with method 4 described in Part II of Schedule 1 to these Regulations.