{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rendering-fluid-treatment-england-order-2001/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rendering-fluid-treatment-england-order-2001/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1515",
  "legislation_title": "The Rendering (Fluid Treatment) (England) Order 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rendering-fluid-treatment-england-order-2001",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Rendering of ruminant animal by-products and treatment and discharge of ruminant related fluid",
  "text": "No person shall render or part render any ruminant animal by-product on any premises unless—\n(a) he subjects all the ruminant related fluid arising to such treatment on the premises as will ensure the fluid has—\n(i) a biochemical oxygen demand of no more than 60mg/litre; and\n(ii) a level of suspended solids of no more than 80 mg/litre; or\n(b) he discharges or releases or disposes or consigns for disposal all the ruminant related fluid—\n(i) into a public sewer in accordance with a trade effluent consent or agreement from the relevant sewerage undertaker under the Water Industry Act 1991; or\n(ii) into controlled waters in compliance with a discharge consent from the Environment Agency under the Water Resources Act 1991.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1991 c. 56."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1515/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:50:17.991236+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."
}