The Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2005

• Citation: S.I. 2005/209
• Sections: 3

Section 1 Title, commencement and application

These Regulations may be cited as the Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2005, come into force on 25th February 2005 and apply in relation to England only.

Section 2 Amendments to the Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995

(1) In so far as they apply in relation to England, the Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) For sub–paragraph (b) of paragraph (2) of regulation 14 (general conditions) there shall be substituted the following sub–paragraph —

(b) poultry meat which —

(i) has not been eviscerated or has been obtained from the body of any bird which has not been eviscerated, or

(ii) has been treated with an agent used specifically to promote water retention or has been obtained in technologically similar conditions and is likely as a result to present the same risk; or

(3) For paragraph (9) of regulation 14 there shall be substituted the following paragraph —

(9) Paragraph (2)(b)(i) above shall not apply to partially eviscerated poultry (“effilé”).

Section 3 Consequential amendment

Insofar as the Products of Animal Origin (Import and Export) Regulations 1996 apply in relation to England, paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 to those Regulations (regulations relevant to intra–Community trade) is amended by substituting the following references for the phrase “The Meat (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) (England) Regulations 2002” —

S.I. 2002/889 ;

The Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2005;