Article 26 Slaughter: isolation of things liable to spread disease

(1)

This article applies to the occupier of any premises where the Scottish Ministers have caused the slaughter of animals as described in regulation 8(2) or 9(1) of the Regulations.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3) a person to whom this article applies shall isolate all milk, milk products, meat, meat products, carcases, hides and skins, wool, semen, embryos, ova, slurry, manure, animal feed and litter on the premises until–

(a)

the Scottish Ministers certify all such items are free of contamination; or

(b)

all such items have been treated in accordance with the directions of an inspector; or

(c)

the Scottish Ministers grant a licence authorising any such item to be removed from the premises to be treated in accordance with Regulation F11069/2009, F2... following which any such item may then be removed and treated in that way and in accordance with the conditions of that licence.

(3)

Paragraph (2) shall not apply to milk on free units where this is authorised by a licence granted by the Scottish Ministers and such licence shall contain terms requiring that–

(a)

where it is for human consumption, milk is subjected to one of the treatments in paragraph 13 of Schedule 5; or

(b)

where it is not for human consumption, milk is subjected to one of the treatments in paragraph 14 of Schedule 5.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in art. 26(2)(c) substituted (4.3.2011) by The Animal By-Products (Enforcement) (Scotland) Regulations 2011 (revoked) 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/171), reg. 1(1), sch. 2 para. 22
F2: Words in art. 26(2)(c) omitted (1.12.2013) by virtue of The Animal By-Products (Enforcement) (Scotland) Regulations 2013 (S.S.I. 2013/307), reg. 1(1), sch. 2 para. 7

Notes on the whole SSI

Textual amendments

F1: 1981 c. 22, amended by the Animal Health Act 1981 (Amendment) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/3293). The functions conferred under the 1981 Act on “the Ministers” (as defined in section 86 of that Act) are now exercisable by the Scottish Ministers. They were transferred, so far as exercisable within devolved competence, by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998.