Consignment and slaughter of an over-age bovine animal

paragraph 2 of SCHEDULE 2 of The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (revoked)

Status not determined
Strict liability
TV licensing, fare evasion and school attendance

This offence was read from the text as made, and no revised version was available, so a later revocation could not be ruled out. Check the current text at legislation.gov.uk.

What the provision says

2 If a bovine animal was born or reared in the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996 or imported into the United Kingdom before 1st August 1996, it is an offence— a to consign it to a slaughterhouse for human consumption (whether the animal is alive or dead); or b to slaughter it for human consumption in a slaughterhouse.

Text as made, from legislation.gov.uk. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This is the text as originally made; later amendments are not shown here.

Who it binds, and what has to be proved

Binds: a person
Conduct: breaching the provision
Fault element: Strict liability
Burden of proof: No statutory defence — prosecution proves everything

The prosecution must prove that the conduct happened. This is a strict liability offence as drafted: the provision uses no word of intention, knowledge, recklessness or negligence, so there is no need to show that a person meant to do it, knew about it, or was careless.

Intention, knowledge and carelessness are irrelevant to guilt. They may still matter a great deal to sentence.

The provision states no defence, so the prosecution bears the burden on every element of the offence.

Classifier’s reasoning: no word of intention, knowledge, recklessness or negligence in the offence or its provision.

What would breach paragraph 2 of SCHEDULE 2?

These are illustrations, not law. They are generated from the provision’s own words to show the shape of the offence. Whether any particular conduct is caught depends on the full text, on any amendment since, and on the facts.

Doing what the provision prohibits, or failing to do what it requires under the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006.

Penalty

Mode of trial: Not determined
Maximum fine: Not determined
Maximum prison (summary): Not determined

no penalty is stated in this instrument; it may be in the enabling Act, or in a general penalties provision this pass did not connect to the offence.

No penalty was determined from this instrument. It may be in the enabling Act, or in a general penalties provision this pass did not connect to the offence. Absence of a figure here is not evidence that the offence carries no penalty.

Sentencing

Offences of this kind are usually sentenced under the guidelines below. This is a mapping by subject, not a finding about this provision, and the links go to a search of the Sentencing Council’s own site.

Sentencing children and young people: definitive guideline Youth courts and all courts sentencing those under 18 · in force from 1 June 2017
Applies whenever the defendant is under 18, whatever the offence.
Reduction in sentence for a guilty plea: definitive guideline All courts in England and Wales · in force from 1 June 2017
The sliding scale of credit for pleading guilty, from one third at the first stage of proceedings downwards.
General guideline: overarching principles All courts in England and Wales · in force from 1 October 2019
The guideline a court uses when there is no offence-specific guideline, which is the position for the overwhelming majority of offences created by statutory instrument. It sets out how culpability and harm are assessed from first principles.
Totality: definitive guideline All courts in England and Wales
How to sentence more than one offence at once so that the total is just and proportionate - frequently in point here, because regulatory prosecutions commonly charge several breaches of the same instrument.

Prosecution figures

No published per-offence figure was found for this provision, and it could not be matched to a Ministry of Justice offence code. Offences created by statutory instrument very largely do not have one. Absence of a figure is not evidence that the offence is unused.

Status and lifecycle

Current status: Status not determined
Made: 2 May 2006
In force from: 3 May 2006
Extent: Not stated

How this was established: read from the text as made; no revised version available, so later revocation could not be ruled out.

What the instrument is for

These Regulations revoke and remake with amendments the TSE Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 and enforce Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (O.J. No. L 147, 31.5.2001, p 1) as amended by and as read with the provisions in Schedule 1 (“the Community TSE Regulation”). The Regulations provide that the Department is the competent authority for the purposes of the Community TSE Regulation (except in Schedule 6, where the competent authority is the Food Standards Agency) (regulation 3) and provide an exception for research (regulation 4). Regulations 6 to 10 deal with approvals, authorisations, licences and registrations, licensing of premises, suspension, amendment and revocations of approvals, etc., and an appeals procedure. Regulation 11 deals with valuations. Regulations 12 to 14 give powers to the Department to appoint inspectors, and deal with powers of entry and powers of inspectors. Regulation 15 provides for issue of notices and regulation 16 provides for licences permitting movement when a movement restriction is in place. Regulations 17 and 18 deal with obstruction of an inspector and penalties. A person guilty of an offence under these Regulations is liable— a on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to imprisonment for a term of three months or both, or b on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or both. Regulation 19 details who is responsible for enforcing these Regulations. Schedule 1 lists amendments to Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001 and with which it must be read. Schedule 2 Part I deals with monitoring for TSEs. Paragraph 1 provides for notification to the Department of fallen stock that must be tested for TSE under the Community TSE Regulation. Paragraph 2 makes it an offence to consign an over-age animal to a slaughterhouse for human consumption or to slaughter such an animal for human consumption. Paragraph 3 provides for brain stem sampling of specified bovine animals. Paragraph 4 creates a requirement for the occupier of a slaughterhouse slaughtering animals over 30 months of age for human consumption to have a Required Method of Operation. Paragraph 5 provides for retention of products and their disposal and paragraph 6 deals with compensation. Schedule 2 Part II specifies the minimum requirements that must appear in a Required Method of Operation. Schedule 3 deals with control and eradication of TSEs in bovine animals. Paragraph 1 provides for notification of a suspect animal to the Department. Paragraphs 2 and 3 provide for the restriction and slaughter of the suspect animal. Paragraph 4 deals with identification of the offspring and cohorts of the suspect animal and Paragraph 5 provides for action following confirmation of BSE. Paragraph 6 deals with action where BSE is not confirmed. Paragraph 7 deals with death of an animal while under restriction. Paragraph 8 deals with placing on the market of bovine progeny. Paragraphs 9 to 16 deal with compensation. Schedule 4 deals with control and eradication of TSEs in sheep and goats. Paragraph 1 provides for notification of a suspect animal to the Department. Paragraphs 2 and 3 provide for the restriction and slaughter of the suspect. Paragraphs 4 and 5 deal with movement restrictions. Paragraphs 6 to 8 provide for action following confirmation. Paragraph 9 provides for time for appeals, and paragraph 10 provides for killing and destruction. Paragraphs 11 to 13 deal with infected animals from other premises, common grazing and multiple flocks on any premises. Paragraph 14 deals with subsequent occupiers of the land. Paragraph 15 restricts the introduction of animals onto any premises. Paragraph 16 regulates the use of ovine germinal products and paragraph 17 restricts the movement of animals from any premises. Paragraph 18 specifies when the time relating to restrictions begins. Paragraph 19 provides for notification of animals that die while under restriction. Paragraph 20 deals with placing on the market of progeny and paragraph 21 requires notification to the Department before the owner may consign sheep aged over 18 months for slaughter. Paragraph 22 deals with derogations from the requirement for the killing and destruction of sheep and goats. Paragraphs 23 to 25 deal with compensation. Schedule 5 Part I deals with restrictions on feeding proteins to animals. Paragraphs 1 to 3 prohibit feeding specified feedingstuffs to ruminant and non-ruminant animals and provide for exceptions. Paragraphs 4 and 5 provide for movement restrictions and slaughter of animals suspected of having been fed prohibited feedingstuffs and paragraph 6 provides for compensation. Paragraph 7 prohibits the slaughter or sale for human consumption of restricted animals. Schedule 5 Part II deals with the production of proteins and feedingstuffs. Paragraphs 1 and 2 regulate the production and use of fishmeal for feeding to non-ruminant animals. Paragraphs 3 and 4 regulate feedingstuffs containing dicalcium phosphate or tricalcium phosphate. Paragraphs 5 and 6 regulate feedingstuffs containing blood products and blood meal. Paragraph 7 makes provision for changes in use of equipment. Paragraphs 8 and 9 control the manufacture, storage and transport of processed animal protein and products containing it. Paragraph 10 controls exports and paragraph 11 regulates fertilisers derived from animal protein. Paragraph 12 deals with records and paragraph 13 deals with cross-contamination of materials originating from premises where processed animal proteins are in use. Schedule 6 deals with specified risk material, mechanically recovered meat and slaughtering techniques. Paragraph 1 appoints the Food Standards Agency as the competent authority for this Schedule. Paragraph 2 imposes certain obligations on district councils with regard to butcher shops. Paragraph 3 makes provision for training of slaughterhouse, cutting plant and butcher shop staff. Paragraph 4 deals with mechanically recovered meat, paragraph 5 with pithing, paragraph 6 with tongue harvesting and paragraph 7 with head meat harvesting. Paragraph 8 controls the removal of specified risk material and paragraphs 9 and 10 deal with bovine animals and sheep and goats at a slaughterhouse. Paragraph 11 deals with young lamb and goat stamps. Paragraph 12 deals with the removal of spinal cord from sheep and goats. Paragraph 13 provides for the authorisation of cutting plants and paragraph 14 the authorisation and registration of butcher shops by district councils. Paragraph 15 controls the removal of specified risk material at a cutting plant. Paragraphs 16 and 17 deal with the removal of bovine vertebral column which is specified risk material at a cutting plant which is not authorised and a butcher shop which is authorised and registered. Paragraph 18 deals with meat from Great Britain and member States. Paragraphs 19 and 20 require the staining of specified risk material and paragraph 21 provides for the security of specified risk material. Paragraph 22 prohibits the supply of specified risk material for human consumption. Schedule 7 deals with restrictions on dispatch to member States and third countries. Paragraph 1 makes it an offence to dispatch bovine animals, meat or meat products or vertebral column to member States or to third countries. Paragraph 2 prohibits the export of specified risk material. Schedule 8 specifies the provisions revoked by these Regulations.

Read the full note and every offence in this instrument

Other offences in the same instrument

For the purposes of monitoring under Article 6 of the Community TSE Regulation, a person who has in his…paragraph 1(1) of SCHEDULE 2
Prohibition on feeding animal protein to ruminantsparagraph 1(1) of SCHEDULE 5
Prohibition on feeding animal protein to ruminantsparagraph 1(2) of SCHEDULE 5
Control and eradication of TSE - notificationparagraph 1(4) of SCHEDULE 3
Export of processed animal protein to third countriesparagraph 10(1) of SCHEDULE 5
Export of processed animal protein to third countriesparagraph 10(2) of SCHEDULE 5
Killing and destruction following confirmationparagraph 10(3) of SCHEDULE 4
Fertilisersparagraph 11(1) of SCHEDULE 5
Fertilisersparagraph 11(2) of SCHEDULE 5
Young lamb and goat stampsparagraph 11(3) of SCHEDULE 6
Young lamb and goat stampsparagraph 11(4) of SCHEDULE 6
Removal of spinal cord from sheep and goatsparagraph 12 of SCHEDULE 6

How this was identified as an offence

Everything above rests on the judgement that this provision creates a criminal offence, rather than mentioning one. That judgement is made by rule, from the words of the provision, and this is the rule that made it — with a confidence of 0.90.

Basis: the provision says “it is an offence”; the provision says an offence is committed “if” something happens
Confidence: 0.90 of 1.00

A provision that states a penalty for an offence created elsewhere can read very like one that creates an offence, and the rules can mistake the one for the other. If the text quoted above sets a penalty for something made an offence by another provision, treat the classification on this page with that in mind, and read the instrument.

Check the source

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The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006 (revoked) Every offence this instrument creates, and its explanatory note
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