The Specified Bovine Material (No. 3) Order 1996
1Title and commencement
2Interpretation
3Approvals
4Specified bovine material for human consumption
5Prohibitions applying to the vertebral column
6Registration of premises on which meat is recovered by mechanical means from bovine animals
7Specified bovine material for animal consumption
8Initial treatment of bovine carcases in a slaughterhouse
9Initial treatment of specified bovine material elsewhere than in a slaughterhouse
10Rendering whole carcases
11Exceptions from the requirement to stain specified bovine material
12Prohibition on the removal of the brain and eyes of a bovine animal
13Prohibition on the removal of the spinal cord of a bovine animal
14Prohibition on bringing in specified bovine material from Northern Ireland
15Consignment of specified bovine material
16Approved collection centres
17Approved incinerators
18Approved rendering plants
19Approved premises not connected with food and feeding stuffs
20Veterinary or laboratory premises, etc.
21Power to give directions
22Consignment
23Samples
24Transport
25Storage
26Enforcement
27Revocation and saving
SCHEDULE 1:Rendering requirements
Part I:Requirements to be met where specified bovine material is rendered
Part II:Methods of rendering
Method 1:Natural fat batch atmospheric (150mm particle size)
Method 2:Natural fat batch atmospheric (30mm particle size)
Method 3:Added fat batch atmospheric (30mm particle size)
Method 4:Natural fat batch (batch pressure)
Method 5:Natural fat continuous atmospheric
Method 6:Added fat continuous atmospheric
Method 7:Defatted continuous atmospheric
SCHEDULE 2:Application of the Order to scheme animals

1996 No. 1941

ANIMALSANIMAL HEALTH

The Specified Bovine Material (No. 3) Order 1996

Made

Coming into force

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1 and 8(1) of the Animal Health Act 19811, as applied by the Zoonoses Order 19882, and the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 11 of that Act, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order: