{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/beef-bones-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/beef-bones-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/540",
  "legislation_title": "The Beef Bones Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/beef-bones-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Deboning",
  "text": "(1) A person shall not, in the course of a business, debone any bone-in beef for preparation, preparation for sale or sale for human consumption except at food premises.\n(2) The occupier of any food premises shall ensure that any deboning of bone-in beef there is carried out in a hygienic manner, in particular so as to avoid the risk of any bones removed in the process contaminating any food or ingredient.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 6 in operation at 16.12.1997, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/1999/495",
      "affecting_title": "The Beef Bones (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/540/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:25:54.719748+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."
}