{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-by-products-order-1992/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-by-products-order-1992/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/3303",
  "legislation_title": "Animal By-Products Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/animal-by-products-order-1992",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Restriction on disposal of animal by-products referred to in Part II of Schedule 1",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of paragraph (2) below any person who has in his possession or under this control any animal by-product referred to in Part II of Schedule 1 shall dispose of it by one of the following methods, namely—\n(a) by rendering in approved premises;\n(b) by incineration;\n(c) by burial.\n(2) The provisions of paragraph (1) shall not apply to—\n(a) the use of any such by-product for scientific purposes;\n(b) the distribution of any such by-product to or use of any such by-product at a knacker’s yard or at premises used for feeding zoo, circus or fur animals, recognized packs of hounds or for feeding to maggots farmed for fishing bait;\n(c) the collection or use of any such by-product for the preparation of petfood or of technical or pharmaceutical products in premises registered under article 9;\n(d) the use, under the authority of a licence from the Minister of any such byproduct for the production of material that has not been fully rendered, subject to the final disposal of that by-product in accordance with paragraph (1) or (2)(c) above.\n(3) Where the use of such by-product is in accordance with paragraph (2)(c) above the Minister may if he thinks it expedient to do so require by notice that it be despatched, stored or processed in a specific location and under specific conditions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/827",
      "affecting_title": "The Animal By-Products (Amendment) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/827",
      "affecting_title": "The Animal By-Products (Amendment) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1996/827",
      "affecting_title": "The Animal By-Products (Amendment) Order 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "replaced (by art.5,6,6A,68X1.1.1998)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/2894",
      "affecting_title": "The Animal By-Products (Amendment) Order 1997"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/3303/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:07:44.171005+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}