{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-beef-controls-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-beef-controls-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/404",
  "legislation_title": "Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-beef-controls-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Prohibition of sale of meat from older bovine animals",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (3), a person shall not sell for human consumption any meat derived from a bovine animal slaughtered on or after 29th March 1996 and which, at the time of slaughter, was more than 2½ years of age.\n(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) the age of a bovine animal shall be ascertained—\n(a) in the first instance by reference to records kept in relation to that animal by the Department (in whatever form); or\n(b) where necessary, by dentition.\n(3) Paragraph (1) shall not apply to meat derived from a bovine animal which—\n(a) was accompanied, at the time of slaughter, by a certificate issued under regulation 5(1);\n(b) was accompanied on admission to the slaughterhouse, by a veterinary certificate issued under regulation 5(2); or\n(c) was born, reared and slaughtered in one of the countries specified in Schedule 2.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/404/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:33:54.430489+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."
}