The Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 1996

• Citation: S.I. 1996/2522
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Title and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 4th October 1996.

Section 2 Amendment

The Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) (No. 2) Regulations 1996 shall be amended as follows —

(a) in regulation 2(1), after the definition of “cattle passport” there shall be inserted —

“mammalian meat and bone meal” shall have the meaning given in the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Order 199;;6

(b) paragraph 6 of Part I of Schedule 1 shall be replaced by —

“The herd shall have been in existence for four years, except where every animal in the herd to which the application relates comes from a herd registered under the Scheme, which shall in either case be verifiable from farm records.”;

in paragraphs 7 and 8(a) of Part I of Schedule 1, before “meat” there shall be inserted “mammalian”;

in paragraph 8(b) of Part I of Schedule 1, “which only produced feed for ruminants” shall be replaced by “in which, over the four years prior to the application, mammalian meat and bone meal has not, with the knowledge of the owner or operator, been stored or used”; and

paragraph 4 of Part II of Schedule 1 shall be replaced by “No animal in the herd shall be fed any feed or compound feed which contains mammalian meat and bone meal.”.