UK Offence Report

Animal By-Products (Identification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (revoked)

Northern Ireland Statutory Rule 1999 No. 418 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created
0recorded in force
0revoked
Made
11 October 1999
In force from
15 November 1999
Extent
Not stated
Subject
Food, consumer protection, trading standards, product safety and age-restricted sales

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 make provision for the sterilisation and staining of animal by-products (defined in regulation 3) and for the control of the movement of such by-products. They revoke the Meat (Sterilisation and Staining) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1989. The Regulations do not apply to entire dead animals (regulation 4), specified green offal of wild game, by-products removed by a veterinary surgeon or an authorised officer for examination, specified waste from animal by-products, animal by-products imported for scientific purposes, specified animal by-products which are transhipped or specified risk material (regulation 5(1)). The Regulations— a require the immediate staining or sterilisation at a slaughter-house or game processing facility (regulation 6), or at any animal by-products premises (regulation 7), of animal by-products excluding poultry by-products and certain other specified by-products (regulation 5(2)); b prohibit the freezing of any animal by-product in any slaughter-house, game processing facility or animal by-products premises unless it has been sterilised or stained (regulation 8); c prohibit the storing of unsterilised animal by-products in the same room as products which are intended for human consumption and the storing of unsterilised animal by-products which are not properly packed and labelled in premises used for the storage of products fit for human consumption (regulation 9); d prohibit the movement from any slaughter-house, game processing facility or animal by-products premises of unstained or unsterilised animal by-products except in specified circumstances (regulation 10); e make provision for the application of various provisions of the Food Safety (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (regulation 11); f specify the bodies by whom the Regulations are to be enforced (regulation 12); g require district councils to supply information to the Department of Agriculture as and when required (regulation 13); and h create offences and prescribe penalties (regulation 14).

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