# The Diseases of Animals (Waste Food) (Amendment) Order 1987, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order amends the Diseases of Animals (Waste Food) Order 1973 (“the 1973 Order”) which prohibits a person from possessing any unprocessed waste food for the purpose of feeding to livestock or poultry, unless he is the holder of a licence granted under that order authorising him to operate plant and equipment for processing waste food, and from feeding any waste food to livestock or poultry, unless it has first been processed by means of plant and equipment operated under such a licence. The 1973 Order further provides that these prohibitions do not apply to the possession by any person of any waste food originating from his own household or to the feeding of such waste food to livestock or poultry provided it has first been processed. This Order removes such exemptions from the 1973 Order so that the prohibitions referred to apply to all unprocessed waste food (article 2(a)).
This Order also enables an issuing authority (as defined in the 1973 Order) before granting, or renewing, a licence authorising the operation of plant and equipment on any premises for processing waste food or the reception of waste food intended for feeding to livestock or poultry on any premises to carry out such inspections, examinations and tests as it considers necessary in order to ascertain whether the premises comply with the constructional specifications set out in the 1973 Order and whether their use for waste food processing or the reception of waste food would give rise to the risk of the spread of disease (article 2(b)).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/232/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/diseases-of-animals-waste-food-amendment-order-1987/note
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