Regulation 8 Inspection and health marking
Each local authority shall arrange for every animal which is to be slaughtered in an export slaughterhouse to be subjected to an ante-mortem health inspection.
Each local authority shall arrange for every animal slaughtered in an export slaughterhouse to be subject to a post-mortem health inspection.
Where fresh meat intended for export has been passed as fit for human consumption following ante-and post-mortem health inspections and is eligible for export in accordance with these Regulations, it shall be marked in accordance with the requirements of Schedule 11, and, subject to paragraph (4) of this regulation, no other meat shall be so marked.
Where fresh meat is not intended for export but has been passed as fit for human consumption following ante-and post-mortem health inspections and is eligible for export in accordance with these Regulations, it shall be marked in accordance with regulation 11 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Meat Inspection Regulations 1987, except that where the owner of the meat so requests it shall be marked in accordance with the requirements of Schedule 11.
Where fresh meat has been passed as fit for human consumption following ante-and post-mortem health inspections but is not eligible for export in accordance with these Regulations, it shall be marked in accordance with regulation 11 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Meat Inspection Regulations 1987.
No person shall remove, or cause or permit to be removed, from an export slaughterhouse any blood intended for human consumption or any carcase or part of a carcase or any offal until it has been inspected in accordance with these Regulations and, in the case of fresh meat passed as fit for human consumption after inspection, until it has been marked in accordance with paragraphs (3) to (5) of this regulation.
The occupier shall give the local authority not less than 24 hours' notice of the day and time on and at which fresh meat intended for export is to be cut up on, or despatched from, any export cutting premises or admitted to, or despatched from, any export cold store. In the case of fresh meat intended for export which is to be despatched from an export cold store, such notice may be given on behalf of the occupier by any person having an interest in the meat.
Where a local authority have been given notice under paragraph (7) of this regulation they shall arrange for fresh meat intended for export to be supervised—
during cutting up on and despatch from any export cutting premises in accordance with the requirements of Schedule 10; and
during admission to and despatch from any export cold store in accordance with the requirements of Schedule 13.
No person shall use the health mark described in Schedule 11 except in premises currently approved by the appropriate Minister as an export slaughterhouse or export cutting premises.