{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rendering-fluid-treatment-order-northern-ireland-2001/article-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rendering-fluid-treatment-order-northern-ireland-2001/article-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/378",
  "legislation_title": "Rendering (Fluid Treatment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rendering-fluid-treatment-order-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Rendering of ruminant animal by-products and treatment and discharge of ruminant related fluid",
  "text": "A person shall not 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 biological oxygen demand of no more than 60mg/l; and\n(ii) a level of suspended solids of no more than 80mg/l; or\n(b) he discharges, releases, disposes of or consigns for disposal any ruminant related material arising—\n(i) into a public sewer in accordance with a trade effluent consent or agreement from the relevant sewerage undertaker under the Water and Sewerage Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1973; or\n(ii) into a waterway or water contained in underground strata in accordance with a discharge consent given for the purposes of Article 9 of the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1991.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1973/70 (N.I. 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/378/article/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:10:01.920084+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."
}