{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-hides-regulations-northern-ireland-1998/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1998/158",
  "legislation_title": "Bovine Hides Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-hides-regulations-northern-ireland-1998",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "(1) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to a Measure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Department” means the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland;\n“approved incinerator” means an incinerator approved by the Department under regulations 5 and 23 of the Specified Risk Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997;\n“approved rendering plant” means a rendering plant approved by the Department under regulations 5 and 24 of the Specified Risk Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 or approved by the Department under regulation 3;\n“authorised officer” means a person appointed by the Department to act as such for the purposes of these Regulations;\n“Commission Regulation 716/96” means Commission Regulation (EC) No. 716/96 adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market in the United Kingdom, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2423/96;\n“controlled hide” means the hide of any animal slaughtered in pursuance of either of the schemes on or after the commencement of these Regulations, from the time of its removal from the carcase until it is processed;\n“controlled waste” means—\n(a) trimmings, fleshings and by-products derived from a controlled hide;\n(b) where a controlled hide is split before it is tanned, and the split is not tanned, that split; and\n(c) protein or tallow produced by rendering other controlled waste;\n“processed”, in relation to a hide, means processed to the wet-tanned stage of the tanning process;\n“registered”, in relation to a hide dealer or tannery controller, means registered under regulation 3;\n“the schemes” means—\n(a) the scheme introduced by Commission Regulation 716/96, for the purchase of bovine animals aged more than 30 months which do not show clinical signs of bovine spongiform encephalopathy and which were, during a period of 6 months prior to their sale, present on a holding located on the territory of the United Kingdom; and\n(b) the selective cull, as defined in regulation 2 of the Selective Cull (Enforcement of Community Compensation Conditions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996;\n“scheme animal” means a bovine animal slaughtered under either of the schemes;\n“scheme slaughterhouse” means a slaughterhouse where scheme animals are slaughtered.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1954 c. 33 (N.I.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. 1997 No. 552"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "O.J. No. L99, 19.4.96, p. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "O.J. No. L329, 19.12.96, p. 43"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.R. 1996 No. 595"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1998/158/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:24:17.975617+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."
}