# The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) Regulations 1989, Regulation 10: Exemption from requirements as to sterilisation and staining of specified bovine offal in slaughterhouses


(1) Specified bovine offal which has been neither sterilised nor stained may be removed from a slaughterhouse which is not equipped with facilities for the sterilisation of specified bovine offal if–
(a) each destination referred to in regulation 11(1) to which it is reasonably practicable to deliver that specified bovine offal is, by reason of permanent or temporary closure of the premises or a breakdown of the machinery installed therein or a trade dispute, unable to receive it;
(b) that specified bovine offal is transported in a vehicle or in an impervious container which, in either case, bears a notice of adequate size which is conspicuously visible and contains a distinct, legible and unambiguous statement to the effect that the specified bovine offal carried therein is not for human consumption; and
(c) that specified bovine offal is removed, in accordance with an arrangement in writing with, and under the supervision of, an authorised officer of the local authority in whose district the slaughterhouse is situated, to a place where it is buried or destroyed.
(2) There may be removed from a slaughterhouse which has exhausted, and cannot practicably replenish, its supplies of staining fluid, specified bovine offal, which has neither been sterilised nor stained, if that bovine offal is delivered to a destination referred to in regulation 11(1)(b) or (c) in accordance with an arrangement in writing with, and under the supervision of, an authorised officer of the local authority in whose district the slaughterhouse is situated.
(3) Where any specified bovine offal is removed from a slaughterhouse in accordance with paragraph (1) or (2) above the occupier of that slaughterhouse is exempt from any requirement imposed by these Regulations to sterilise or stain that specified bovine offal.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2061/regulation/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-offal-prohibition-regulations-1989/regulation-10
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