{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-offal-prohibition-regulations-1989/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-offal-prohibition-regulations-1989/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/2061",
  "legislation_title": "The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-offal-prohibition-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Requirements as to sterilisation and staining of specified bovine offal in slaughterhouses",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 10(3) and to paragraphs (2), (3) and (4) below, any specified bovine offal at a slaughterhouse shall immediately be sterilised by the occupier at the slaughterhouse or be placed by him a room or receptacle designed for the purpose of holding meat awaiting sterilisation and bearing a notice stating that its contents are to be sterilised on the premises, and shall then be sterilised by him at the slaughterhouse.\n(2) The requirements as to sterilisation imposed by paragraph (1) above shall not apply in the case of any specified bovine offal which–\n(a) is stained by the occupier of the slaughterhouse immediately after slaughter; or\n(b) is intended to be removed from the slaughterhouse under the authority of a movement permit issued pursuant to regulation 12 to excepted premises.\n(3) The requirement as to sterilisation imposed by paragraph (1) above shall not apply in the case of the brain of a bovine animal contained within its head which is intended to be removed from the slaughterhouse to a specialist boning plant under the authority of a movement permit issued pursuant to regulation 12 where that head is intended to be removed there for the purpose of the recovery of meat (other than specified bovine offal) from it.\n(4) Nothing in this regulation shall be taken to prohibit the severance of specified bovine offal from any excluded matter which is not intended for sterilisation or staining, and things to be done immediately under this regulation shall be taken to be so done where any delay is attributable solely to that severance.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1992/306",
      "affecting_title": "The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Amendment) Regulations 1992"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2061/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:35:09.034134+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."
}