Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–

• “the Act” means the Food Act 1984;

• “excepted premises”, in the case of specified bovine offal, means–

  1. (a)

     a hospital, medical or veterinary school, laboratory or similar institution for instructional or diagnostic purposes or the premises of a manufacturing chemist (in circumstances where he receives the offal for the manufacture by him of pharamaceutical products); or

  2. (b)

     premises used for the manufacture of products other than food and not used for the manufacture of food;

• “head” does not include tonsils;

• “intestines” means that part of the digestive tract of a bovine animal from the junction of the abomasum and the duodenum to (and including) the rectum;

• “processor” has the meaning given to it in the Meat (Sterilisation and Staining) Regulations 1982^f1 and also includes a waste food processor licensed under the provisions of the Diseases of Animals (Waste Food) Order 1973^f2 to receive unprocessed waste food;

• “sell” includes have in possession for sale or offer or exposed for sale and “sale” and “sold” shall be construed accordingly;

• “slaughterhouse” has the same meaning as in the Act, except that it does not include any place available in connection with a slaughterhouse and used solely for the manufacture of bacon, ham, sausages, meat pies or other manufactured meat products, or for the storage of meat used in such manufacture;

• “specialist boning plant” means premises (not being a slaughterhouse or knacker’s yard) where a business of removing meat from bones is carried on but does not include any premises where such removal of meat is made in the course of or for the purposes of the sale by retail of meat;

• “specified bovine offal” means the brain, spinal cord, spleen, thymus, tonsils and intestines of a bovine animal which has been slaughtered in the United Kingdom and no longer comprises a whole dead animal, and “excluded matter” means any part of such an animal which part does not consist of or contain any specified bovine offal;

• “stained” has the meaning given to it in the Meat (Sterilisation and Staining) Regulations 1982 and “stain” and “staining” shall be construed accordingly;

• “sterilised” has the meaning given to it in the Meat (Sterilisation and Staining) Regulations 1982 and “sterilise” and “sterilisation” shall be construed accordingly.

For the purposes of these Regulations–