Regulation 8 Restriction on removal of carcases

Subject to the provisions of this regulation, no person shall remove, or cause or permit to be removed, from a 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 any carcase or part of a carcase which has been so inspected and passed as fit for human consumption by an inspector, until it has been marked in accordance with regulation 11.

Subject to the provisions of this regulation, where by reason of accidental injury, illness, exposure to infection or other emergency affecting any animal, that animal has been slaughtered for sale for human consumption in any place other than a slaughterhouse, no person shall remove, or cause to be removed, from the place of slaughter the carcase of that animal or any part thereof or any offal removed therefrom, or any blood collected from that carcase and intended for human consumption, until it has been inspected in accordance with these Regulations and, in the case of any carcase or part of a carcase which has been so inspected and passed as fit for human consumption by an inspector, until it has been marked in accordance with regulation 11:

Provided that where any animal to which this paragraph applies has been slaughtered in a place which is unsuitable for retaining a carcase, the carcase may be removed to some convenient place for inspection in accordance with these Regulations, but the information required to be given under regulation 5 shall be given to the local authority in whose district that place of inspection is situated and regulation 5 and this paragraph shall have effect as if that place were substituted for the place of slaughter.

The following parts of a carcase shall be discarded immediately after slaughter—