{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/products-of-animal-origin-disease-control-england-regulations-2008/schedule-3/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/products-of-animal-origin-disease-control-england-regulations-2008/schedule-3/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/465",
  "legislation_title": "The Products of Animal Origin (Disease Control) (England) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/products-of-animal-origin-disease-control-england-regulations-2008",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Restricted meat from animals must be marked with an identification mark which is—\n(a) a diagonal cross, superimposed on the health mark or identification mark applied under article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 853/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin ..., or\n(b) a single oval stamp, 6.5 cm wide and 4.5 cm high, upon which the following information is legible:\n(i) on the upper part, the letters UK;\n(ii) in the centre, the approval number of the establishment;\n(iii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(iv) two straight lines crossing at the centre of the stamp in such a way that the information is not obscured;\n(v) information which identifies the veterinarian who inspected the meat.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+NI",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 1(a) omitted (1.6.2018) by virtue of The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments) (England) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/575), regs. 1(2), 41(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 1(b)(iii) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Exotic Disease (Amendment) (England) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1406), regs. 1, 8(3); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No L 226, 25.6.2004, p 22."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/465/schedule/3/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:36:06.136114+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."
}