Animal By-Products Order 1992

Registration of premises used for the feeding of animal by-products to zoo, circus or fur animals, recognized packs of hounds and maggot farming for fishing bait

10.—(1) No person shall receive or use on any premises any animal by-product referred to in paragraph (a), (b) or (e) of Part I of Schedule 1 or Part II of Schedule 1 for feeding to zoo, circus or fur animals, recognized packs of hounds and to maggots farmed for fishing bait, unless his name and the address of those premises are registered in respect of those premises.

(2) The appropriate Minister shall keep, for the purposes of paragraph (1) above, a register of persons being persons entitled to use premises for the receipt and use of any animal by-product.

(3) Any application for registration shall be in writing in such form and manner as the appropriate Minister may require.

(4) The appropriate Minister shall, subject to paragraph (5) below, register the applicant’s name in respect of those premises and shall issue to the applicant a certificate of such registration.

(5) The appropriate Minister shall refuse to register the name of any person in respect of any premises unless the particulars specified in Schedule 5 are notified to him in writing.

(6) The appropriate Minister shall refuse to register or shall remove the name of any person in respect of any premises, if, as the result of an inspection carried out in the premises by a veterinary inspector, he is satisfied that the provisions of article 7 and Schedule 2 are not being complied with or cannot be complied with by the date on which registration would otherwise be effected.

(7) A person whose name is registered shall notify the appropriate Minister in writing of any change in the particulars previously notified to him except in respect of information required by paragraph 6 of Schedule 5, such notification to be made within 14 days of any such change.