The Specified Risk Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

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The Specified Risk Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

FOOD SAFETY

Made

29 th December 1997

Coming into operation

1 st January 1998

Whereas it appears to the Department of Agriculture, acting as the Department concerned that it is necessary or expedient—

for the purposes of ensuring that food complies with food safety requirements or in the interests of public health; or

for the purposes of protecting or promoting the interests of consumers,

to make the following Regulations;

Now therefore the said Department concerned, in exercise of the powers conferred by Articles 15(1) , (2) and (3) , 16(1) , 18(1) , 25 , 26(3) and 47(2) of and paragraphs 2(1) , 3 , 5 and 6(1) of Schedule 1 to the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991(1) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, and after consultation, in accordance with Article 47(3) of that Order, with such organisations that appear to it to be representative of interests substantially affected by the Regulations, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Part IPreliminary

Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Specified Risk Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 1 st January 1998.

Interpretation

2.—(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

“approved” in relation to any incinerator means approved by the Department for the purposes of regulation 23;

“approved”, in relation to cutting premises or a slaughterhouse, means approved by the Department for the purposes of regulation 15;

“class I specified risk material” means—

class I specified bovine material;

class I specified sheep and goat material;

but does not include material derived from animals which—

were slaughtered or died outside the United Kingdom before 1 st January 1998; or

were born, reared and slaughtered in Australia or New Zealand;

“class II specified risk material” means—

class II specified bovine material;

class II specified sheep and goat material;

any part of the ruminant animal remaining attached to class I or II specified bovine material or class I or II specified sheep and goat material after dissection of the carcase; and

any animal material which comes into contact with class I or II specified bovine material or class I or II specified sheep and goat material after it has been removed from the carcase;

“collection centre” means any premises approved by the Department under and for the purposes of regulation 22;

“consignment record” means in relation to any consignment of specified risk material, protein or tallow, a record of, as the case may be—

the date on which the consignment was dispatched or received (as the case may be);

the weight of the consignment; and

the person and the place to whom the consignment was dispatched or from whom it was received;

“cutting premises” has the meaning given in the Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997(2);

“Department” means Department of Agriculture;

“inspector” means a person designated as such in accordance with regulation 7(2) of the Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997;

“intestines” means that part of the digestive tract of a bovine animal fro...

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