{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-by-products-amendment-order-1997/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2894",
  "legislation_title": "The Animal By-Products (Amendment) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-by-products-amendment-order-1997",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Animal By-Products Order 1992",
  "text": "(1) The Animal By-Products Order 1992 shall be amended in accordance with this article.\n(2) After article 3(2) the following paragraph shall be added—\n“(3) A notice, approval or licence under this Order—\n(a) shall be in writing;\n(b) may be subject to conditions;\n(c) may be amended, suspended or revoked by notice in writing at any time.”.\n(3) Articles 5 and 6 shall be replaced with the following articles—\n“Restriction on disposal of animal by-products referred to in Schedule 1\n5 (1) Subject to the following provisions of this article, any person who has in his possession or under his control any animal by-product referred to in Schedule 1 shall dispose of it without undue delay by—\n(a) rendering in approved premises;\n(b) complete incineration in an incinerator; or\n(c) burning other than in an incinerator or by burial if—\n(i) the by-product is in a place where access is difficult; or\n(ii) the amount of by-product and the distance to approved rendering premises or an incinerator do not justify transporting it.\n(2) If the Minister serves on the person in charge of any animal by-product a notice certifying that—\n(a) the by-product is from animals infected or suspected of being infected with an epizootic disease and should not be transported because of health risks;\n(b) the by-product is from animals infected with or suspected of being infected with a serious disease, or contains residues which could constitute a risk to human or animal health and which could survive rendering; or\n(c) there is a lack of capacity at rendering premises or incinerators;\nthen that person shall, without undue delay, dispose of the by-product by burning or by burial as may be specified in the notice.\n(3) If he thinks fit, the Minister may serve a notice on any person in possession of an animal by-product referred to in Part I of Schedule 1 requiring its complete incineration in an incinerator.\nExemptions from article 5\n6 (1) The provisions of article 5 above shall not apply to any person consigning or using an animal by-product for scientific purposes.\n(2) The provisions of article 5 above shall not apply to any person consigning or using animal by-products referred to in Part II of Schedule 1 for the preparation of petfood or technical or pharmaceutical products in premises registered under article 9.\n(3) Where any by-product is used in accordance with paragraph (2) above the Minister may by notice require that it be despatched, stored or processed in a specific location and under specific conditions.\n(4) The provisions of article 5 above shall not apply to—\n(a) any person consigning animal by-products to a person licensed by the Minister to partly render animal by-products, or\n(b) any person partly rendering animal by-products on premises licensed by the Minister provided that the part-rendered product is disposed of in accordance with article 5 above or, in the case of material referred to in Part II of Schedule 1, in accordance with paragraph (2) of this article.\nExemptions from article 5 relating to certain types of animal by-product\n6A (1) This article applies to—\n(a) a by-product referred to in paragraphs (a), (b) and (e) of Part I of Schedule 1 (provided that it is not from an animal slaughtered as a result of the presence or suspected presence of a notifiable disease listed in Annex I to Council Directive No. 82/894/EEC (on the notification of animal diseases within the Community)); and\n(b) a by-product referred to in Part II of Schedule 1.\n(2) The provisions of article 5 above shall not apply to any person consigning animal by-products to which this article applies to a knackers' yard or to premises where zoo, circus or fur animals, recognised packs of hounds or maggots farmed for fishing bait are fed.\n(3) The provisions of article 5 above shall not apply to any person treating an animal by-product to which this article applies in a knacker’s yard.\n(4) The provisions of article 5 above shall not apply to any person using an animal by-product to which this article applies for feeding zoo, circus or fur animals, recognised packs of hounds or maggots farmed for fishing bait.\nKnackers' yards\n6B The occupier of a knacker’s yard shall ensure that any animal by-product received by him is either—\n(a) cooked or denatured without delay and then distributed locally for feeding animals whose flesh is not intended for human consumption in a way that entails no risk to human or animal health, or\n(b) disposed of without delay in accordance with article 5 above.”.\n(4) Article 8(3) is revoked.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1992/3303 as amended by S.I. 1996/827."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "O.J. No. L378, 31.12.82 as amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3768/85 (O.J. No.. L362, 31.12.85, p. 8), Commission Decision No. 89/162/EEC (O.J. No. L61, 4.3.89, p. 48) and Commission Decision 92/450/EEC (O.J. No. L248, 28.8.92, p. 77)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2894/article/2",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}