{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-offal-prohibition-scotland-amendment-regulations-1992/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-offal-prohibition-scotland-amendment-regulations-1992/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/158",
  "legislation_title": "The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-offal-prohibition-scotland-amendment-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendment of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—\n(a) after the definition of “the Act” there shall be inserted the following definition:—\n““animal feeding stuffs” includes pet food;”\n(b) in the definition of “processor” the words from and including “and also includes a waste food processor” to the end of that definition shall be deleted.\n(2) For regulation 4 (prohibition of sale) there shall be substituted the following regulation:—\n“4 No person shall—\n(a) sell for human consumption; or\n(b) use in the preparation of food for sale for human consumption, any specified bovine offal or any material derived wholly or partly from it.”\n(3) Sub-paragraph (b), and the reference to that sub-paragraph in sub-paragraph (c), of regulation 11(1) shall be deleted.\n(4) Sub-paragraph (b), and the reference to that sub-paragraph in sub-paragraph (c), of regulation 12(1) shall be deleted.\n(5) At the end of regulation 12(2) (exemption from requirement to sterilise specified bovine offal) there shall be inserted the words “or to the premises of a processor or to the premises of a person for preparation or storage before further removal to the premises of a processor”.\n(6) After regulation 13 (requirement to sterilise or stain skulls containing brains) there shall be inserted the following regulations:—\n“Prohibition of the removal of meat from the head of a bovine animal after the brain has been removed\n13A No person shall remove any meat for human consumption from the head of a bovine animal after the skull has been opened or the brain has been removed from that head.\nRemoval of the brain from the head of a bovine animal\n13B No person shall remove the brain from the head of a bovine animal in a slaughterhouse or specialist boning plant except in an area in the slaughterhouse or specialist boning plant (as the case may be) which is kept free at all times from any food intended for human consumption.”.\n(7) In regulation 15(c) the words from “the premises” to the words “products or to” inclusive shall be deleted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/158/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:30:23.087524+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."
}