UK Offence Report

The Bovine Products (Production and Despatch) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Northern Ireland Statutory Rule 1997 No. 319 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
27 June 1997
In force from
26 July 1997
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Agriculture, plant health, food production and rural affairs
Made under
European Communities Act 1972

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations revoke and remake with amendments the Bovine Products (Despatch to other Member States) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996, as amended. Those Regulations implemented in part Commission Decision 96/239/EC on emergency measures to protect against bovine spongiform encephalopathy, as amended by Commission Decision 96/362/EC, in relation to the despatch to other member States of meat and other products from bovine animals slaughtered outside the United Kingdom. They made provision for the Department to charge fees and contained provisions on enforcement, obstruction, offences and penalties. These Regulations additionally make provision controlling the production from bovine animals of gelatin, tallow and related products (regulation 3), and concerning the export and use of such products (regulation 5). They regulate the consignment of material containing bovine vertebral column to establishments approved under the Regulations (regulation 4).

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