The TSE (Wales) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2005

3.  In regulation 3(1) (interpretation)—

(a) at the end of the definition of “the Community Transitional Measures”, there is added —

“(g) Regulation (EC) No. 932/2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies as regards the extension of the period for transitional measures(1);”;

and the word “and” is deleted from the end of sub-paragraph (e), and added to the end of the sub-paragraph (c), of that definition;

(b) at the end of the definition of “inspector”, there is added—

“(d) a person appointed as such for the purposes of Article 6 of the Community TSE Regulation and Regulation 10A in relation to a hide market or tannery by the Meat and Livestock Commission established by section 1 of the Agricultural Act 1967(2);”;

and the word “and” is deleted from the end of sub-paragraph (b), and added to the end of the sub-paragraph (c), of that definition;

(c) for the definition of “vertebral column”, there is substituted—

““vertebral column” excludes the vertebrae of the tail, the spinous and transverse processes of the cervical, thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, the median sacral crest and the wings of the sacrum, but includes the dorsal root ganglia;”;

(d) for the definition of “young lamb stamp” and the word “and” preceding it, there is substituted—

““young goat stamp” means the stamp described as such in regulation 38(2); and

“young lamb stamp” means the stamp described as such in regulation 38(2).”.

(1)

OJ No. L 163, 23.6.2005 p 1.

(2)

1967c.22; section 1 was amended by the Agriculture Act 1986 (c. 49), section 7