Article 2 Interpretation

In this Order—

• “animal protein” means any protein material which is derived from the carcase of any kind of mammal except man but does not include:

  1. (a)

     milk or any milk product;

  2. (b)

     dicalcium bone phosphate;

  3. (c)

     dried plasma or any other blood product;

  4. (d)

     gelatin; or

  5. (e)

     amino acids produced from hides and skins by a process which involves exposure of the material to acid of pH lower than 2 followed by alkali of pH greater than 11 and heat treatment at a minimum 140°C for 30 minutes at the pressure of 3 bar;

• “approved disinfectant” means a disinfectant for the time being approved by the Department under the Diseases of Animals (Approval of Disinfectants) Order (Northern Ireland) 1972^f1;

• “collection centre” means any premises licensed by the Department under Article 5(1) for the purpose of storing and handling specified bovine material;

• “feedingstuff” shall mean feedingstuff as defined in section 66(1) of the Agriculture Act 1970^f2;

• “fertilizer” shall have the meaning assigned to it by the Agriculture Act 1970;

• “intestines” means that part of the digestive tract of a bovine animal from the junction of the abomasum and the duodenum to (and including) the rectum;

• “livestock” means any creature kept for the production of food, wool, skin or fur or (excluding a dog) for use in the farming of land;

• “mammalian meat and bone meal” means mammalian protein derived from the whole or part of any dead mammal by rendering;

• “MBM product” means any product containing mammalian meat and bone meal;

• “rendering plant” means any premises licensed by the Department under Article 6(1) for the purposes of receiving and processing specified bovine material, other than manufacturing premises not connected with food and feedingstuffs;

• “premises” means all contiguous land and buildings occupied by a person, together with other land or buildings occupied by that person which use equipment in common with the contiguous land;

• “production” includes the manufacture, mixing or packaging of any product, together with ancillary storage and transport operations;

• “scheme animal” means a bovine animal which has been slaughtered pursuant to the purchase, slaughter and disposal scheme introduced under Commission Regulation (EC) No. 716/96^f3 adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market in the United Kingdom;

• “securely packaged” in relation to any material means that the material is contained in a sealed bag or other container from which no part of it can escape, and which is made of such a material and in such a manner that any damage which may foreseeably be sustained in normal handling and storage operations would not permit the escape of any material from that bag or container;

• “sell” includes have in possession for sale or offer or expose for sale;

• “specified bovine material” means—

  1. (a)

     subject to paragraph (d) of this definition, the head (including the brain but excluding the tongue), spinal cord, spleen, thymus, tonsils and intestines of a bovine animal six months old or over which has died in the United Kingdom or has been slaughtered there;

  2. (b)

     the thymus and intestines of a bovine animal two months old or over but less than six months old which has died in the United Kingdom or has been slaughtered there;

  3. (c)

     the thymus and intestines of a bovine animal under two months old which has been slaughtered in the United Kingdom for human consumption;

  4. (d)

     subject to paragraph (3), the head (including the brain and the tongue), spinal cord, spleen, thymus, tonsils and intestines of a scheme animal; and

  5. (e)

     specified solid waste,

  and includes anything left attached to such material after dissection of the carcase and any animal matter which comes into contact with the material after it has been removed from the carcase, but does not include a whole carcase;

• “specified solid waste” means any solid matter resulting from the slaughter of bovine animals or from their subsequent processing which is collected in any part of the drainage system draining any place where specified bovine material is handled, including a slaughterhouse, hunt kennel, knackers yard, rendering plant, collection centre or incinerator;

• “storage unit” means all contiguous land occupied by a person whose business includes the storage of feedingstuffs (including storage as an ancillary activity to retail sale), and all other land and buildings occupied by that person which use any equipment in common with the contiguous land except such land or buildings forming part of or constituting a production unit;

• “tallow” means fat derived from animal tissues by a process of cooking;

• “the 1981 Order” means the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981;

• “the SBMTD Regulations” means the Specified Bovine Material (Treatment and Disposal) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996^f4.

For the purposes of this Order the supply of feedingstuffs otherwise than by sale at, in or from any place where feedingstuffs are supplied in the course of a business, shall be deemed to be a sale.

The provisions of Articles 8, 9(1)(e) and 12 shall not apply to specified bovine material from scheme animals.

For the purposes of this Order, material shall be treated as a feedingstuff whether it is used or intended for use as a feedingstuff by itself or as an ingredient or additive in something which is so used or intended for such use.