{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-material-no-2-order-northern-ireland-1996/article-4n1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-material-no-2-order-northern-ireland-1996/article-4n1.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/360",
  "legislation_title": "Specified Bovine Material (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-material-no-2-order-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "article/4n1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Prohibition on sale, supply and use of certain feedingstuffs for feeding to animals and poultry",
  "text": "(1) Subject to paragraph (5) a person shall not—\n(a) sell or supply for feeding to ruminant animals any animal protein or any feedingstuffs in which he knows or has reason to suspect any animal protein has been incorporated;\n(b) feed to a ruminant animal any animal protein or any feedingstuffs in which he knows or has reason to suspect that any animal protein has been incorporated;\n(c) sell or supply for feeding to poultry or animals, other than ruminant animals, any specified bovine material or any feedingstuffs which he knows, or has reason to suspect, contains such material;\n(d) feed to poultry or animals, other than ruminant animals, any specified bovine material or any feedingstuffs which he knows, or has reason to suspect, contains such material;\n(e) use any specified bovine material in the preparation of feedingstuffs for poultry or animals;\n(f) sell any specified bovine material for use in the preparation of feedingstuffs for poultry or animals;\n(g) sell or supply for incorporation into any feedingstuff for livestock, fish or equine animals any mammalian meat and bone meal;\n(h) sell or supply for feeding to livestock, fish or equine animals any feedingstuff in which he knows or has reason to suspect any mammalian meat and bone meal has been incorporated;\n(i) feed to any livestock, fish or equine animals any feedingstuff in which any mammalian meat and bone meal has been incorporated; or\n(j) use any mammalian meat and bone meal in the production of any feedingstuff for livestock, fish or equine animals.\n(2) A person shall not undertake any production using any mammalian meat and bone meal or any MBM product on premises where any feedingstuff for livestock, fish or equine animals is produced unless—\n(a) the feedingstuff for livestock, fish or equine animals is produced in a separate building from that in which the mammalian meat and bone meal or MBM product is used; and\n(b) no equipment or vehicle used in the production of the feedingstuff for livestock, fish or equine animals comes into contact with any mammalian meat and bone meal, any MBM product, or any ingredient or equipment used in connection with mammalian meat and bone meal or an MBM product.\n(3) A person shall not have in his possession any mammalian meat and bone meal or any MBM product on any premises where—\n(a) any livestock, fish or equine animals are kept;\n(b) any feedingstuff for livestock, fish or equine animals is produced; or\n(c) any feedingstuff for livestock, fish or equine animals is stored but not produced.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/360/article/4n1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:34:16.189129+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."
}