The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Amendment) Regulations 1994

• Citation: S.I. 1994/2628
• Sections: 5

Section 1 Title, commencement and interpretation

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Amendment) Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 2nd November 1994.

(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations ” means the Bovine Offal (Prohibition) Regulations 1989 .

Section 2 Amendment of the principal Regulations

The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of these Regulations.

Section 3 Amendment of the principal Regulations

In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations—

(a) after the definition of “excepted premises” there shall be inserted the following definition:—

“excluded matter” in relation to any bovine animal which has died or been slaughtered in the United Kingdom means any part of such an animal which does not consist of or contain any specified bovine offal;

(b) for the definition of “specified bovine offal” there shall be substituted the following:—

“specified bovine offal” means the following parts of a bovine animal—

(a) the brain, spinal cord, spleen, thymus, tonsils and intestines of an animal, more than six months of age, which has died or been slaughtered in the United Kingdom;

(b) the thymus and intestines of an animal, two months or over but not more than six months of age, which has died or been slaughtered in the United Kingdom;

(c) the thymus and intestines of an animal, under two months of age, which has been slaughtered in the United Kingdom; and

which no longer form part of the carcase of an animal.

Section 4 Amendment of the principal Regulations

Paragraph (1) of regulation 3 of the principal Regulations shall be deleted.

Section 5 Amendment of the principal Regulations

In regulation 7 of the principal Regulations the following shall be deleted:—

(a) paragraph (1)(e) and the word “or” immediately preceding it; and

(b) paragraph (2).