{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/processed-animal-protein-order-1989/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/processed-animal-protein-order-1989/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/661",
  "legislation_title": "The Processed Animal Protein Order 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/processed-animal-protein-order-1989",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Taking of samples for testing",
  "text": "(1) It shall be the duty of a Registered person to ensure that–\n(a) on each day on which any supplies of processed animal protein are consigned from the premises in respect of which his name is entered in the Register, a sample is taken in the manner described in paragraph (2) of Part I of Schedule 1 to this Order from the processed animal protein which forms those supplies, and\n(b) the sample is submitted forthwith to a laboratory for testing (at his expense) in accordance with either of the methods set out in Part II of Schedule 1 to this Order.\n(2) Where processed animal protein produced on any premises is incorporated in a feeding stuff for livestock or poultry kept on those premises, it shall be the duty of the Registered person to ensure that–\n(a) on each day immediately before any supplies of any such processed animal protein are incorporated in such feeding stuff, a sample is taken in the manner mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) above from those supplies, and\n(b) the sample is submitted for testing (at his expense) in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1)(b) above.\n(3) After a sample has been tested in accordance with paragraph (1)(b) or (2)(b) above by a laboratory it shall be destroyed by that laboratory.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/661/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:45:31.359030+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."
}