{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-offal-prohibition-regulations-1989/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-offal-prohibition-regulations-1989/regulation-9.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/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Prohibition of bringing in of specified bovine offal from Scotland or Northern Ireland",
  "text": "(1) No person shall bring, or cause or permit to be brought into England and Wales from Scotland or Northern Ireland any specified bovine offal unless–\n(a) it has been sterilised;\n(b) it has been stained and is intended to be delivered to a destination specified in regulation 11(1)(b) or (c) and it is accompanied to that destination by a consignment note or permit; or\n(c) it is intended to be delivered to excepted premises and is accompanied to that destination by a consignment note or permit.\n(2) The driver of the vehicle in which specified bovine offal is delivered to any premises accompanied by a consignment note or a permit shall give that note or a copy of that permit to the occupier of that premises, who shall retain it for a period of two years from the date on which he received it and within seven days of that date send a copy thereof to the local authority in whose district those premises are or that specified bovine offal is located. Any consignment note or copy permit retained by an occupier of premises in accordance with the requirements of this paragraph shall be made available for inspection by an authorised officer at any reasonable time.\n(3) On receipt of any such copy of a consignment note or permit in accordance with paragraph (2) of this regulation the local authority shall, if the specified bovine offal to which it relates has been brought in from Scotland, forthwith notify in writing the local authority in Scotland from whose district the specified bovine offal has been brought in, or, if the specified bovine offal has been brought in from Northern Ireland, notify in writing the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland of the arrival of the consignment related to the consignment note or permit.\n(4) In this regulation–\n“consignment note” means a consignment note issued in pursuance of Part III of the Meat and Poultry Meat (Staining and Sterilisation) (Scotland) Regulations 1983; and\n“permit” means, in relation to specified bovine offal, a permit issued under the provisions of regulation 16 of the Meat Shipping Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1964 or a movement permit issued under the provisions of regulation 20 of the Meat (Sterilisation and Staining) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 1984 authorising the removal of that specified bovine offal to the premises to which it is to be delivered.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/704."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1964 No. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.R. (N.I.) 1984 No. 416."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1995/613",
      "affecting_title": "The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Amendment) Regulations 1995"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/2061/regulation/9",
    "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."
}