Article 9 Registration of premises collecting or using animal by-products for petfood, technical or pharmaceutical products

No person shall use any premises (other than premises on which the animal by-products originate) to collect animal by-products intended for the preparation of petfood or for the production of petfood (other than knackers' yards) or technical or pharmaceutical products using animal by-products referred to in Part II of Schedule 1 unless his name is registered in respect of those premises and that product.

The appropriate Minister shall keep, for the purposes of paragraph (1) above, a register of persons entitled to use premises for the collection of material intended for the preparation or production of petfood or technical or pharmaceutical products.

Any application for registration shall be in writing in such form and manner as the appropriate Minister may require.

The appropriate Minister shall, subject to paragraph (5) below, register the applicant’s name in respect of those premises and that product and shall issue to the applicant a certificate of such registration.

The appropriate Minister shall refuse to register the name of any person in respect of any premises unless the particulars specified in Schedule 5 are notified to him in writing.

The appropriate Minister shall refuse to register or shall remove the name of any 1373.04person in respect of any premises if, as the result of an inspection carried out on the premises by a veterinary inspector, he is satisfied that the provisions of article 7 and Schedule 2 or Schedule 6 are not being complied with or cannot be complied with by the date on which registration could otherwise be effected.

A person whose name is registered shall notify the appropriate Minister in writing of any change in the particulars previously notified to him except in the case of information required by paragraph 6 of Schedule 5, such notification to be made within 14 days of any such change.