The Specified Bovine Material (No. 3) Order 1996

Interpretation

2.—(1) In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—

“approved” means approved by the appropriate Minister;

“enforcement authority” means the appropriate body specified in article 26 below;

“feeding stuff” has the meaning given to it by section 66(1) of the Agriculture Act 1970(1);

“food” has the same meaning as in the Food Safety Act 1990(2);

“intestines” means that part of the digestive tract of a bovine animal from the junction of the abomasum and the duodenum to (and including) the rectum;

“scheme animal” means a bovine animal which has been slaughtered pursuant to the purchase scheme introduced under Commission Regulation (EC) No. 716/96(3) adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market in the United Kingdom;

“sell” includes have in possession for sale or offer or expose for sale;

“slaughterhouse” means any building, premises or place licensed for slaughtering animals the flesh of which is intended for sale for human consumption;

“specified bovine material” means—

(a)

subject to (d) below, the head (including the brain but excluding the tongue), spinal cord, spleen, thymus, tonsils and intestines of a bovine animal six months old or over which has died in the United Kingdom or has been slaughtered there;

(b)

the thymus and intestines of a bovine animal two months old or over but less than six months old which has died in the United Kingdom or has been slaughtered there;

(c)

the thymus and intestines of a bovine animal under two months old which has been slaughtered in the United Kingdom for human consumption;

(d)

subject to paragraph (4) below, the head (including the brain and the tongue), spinal cord, spleen, thymus, tonsils and intestines of a scheme animal; and

(e)

specified solid waste,

and includes anything left attached to such material after dissection of the carcase and any animal matter which comes into contact with the material after it has been removed from the carcase, but does not include a whole carcase;

“specified solid waste” means any solid matter resulting from the slaughter of bovine animals, or from the subsequent processing of their carcases, which is collected in any part of the drainage system draining any place where specified bovine material is handled;

“tallow” means fat derived from animal tissues by a process of cooking;

“vertebral column” means the whole or any part thereof and includes the sacrum but does not include the coccygeal vertebrae.

(2) For the purposes of this Order the supply of specified bovine material, food or feeding stuffs otherwise than by sale at, in or from any place where food or feeding stuffs are supplied in the course of a business, shall be deemed to be a sale.

(3) In this Order the expression “mechanical means” does not include the use of hand held powered knives which do not use powered pressure or suction.

(4) The provisions of this Order shall apply to specified bovine material from scheme animals, save that the provisions appearing in Column 1 of the Table in Schedule 2 to this Order shall apply only to the extent, and subject to the modifications, specified in Column 2.

(5) For the purposes of this Order, material shall be treated as a feeding stuff whether it is used or intended for use as a feeding stuff by itself or as an ingredient or additive in something which is so used or intended for such use.

(1)

1970 c. 40; the definition of “feeding stuff” in section 66(1) was substituted by regulation 20(1) of the Feeding Stuffs Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/1412); regulation 3 of those Regulations prescribes descriptions of animals for the purpose of the definition.

(2)

1990 c. 16.

(3)

OJ No. L99, 19.4.96, p.14.