{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-material-order-1997/article-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-material-order-1997/article-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/617",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Bovine Material Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-material-order-1997",
  "path": "article/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Approved premises not producing food, feeding stuffs or cosmetic, pharmaceutical or medical products",
  "text": "(1) This article shall apply to premises approved as being suitable to process specified bovine material for use in a manufacturing process which is not producing any food or feeding stuff or any cosmetic, phamaceutical or medical product or anything intended or likely to come into direct contact with any of them and does not pose a risk to human or animal health.\n(2) The appropriate Minister shall approve premises for the purposes of paragraph (1) above where, following an inspection of those premises by a veterinary inspector, he is satisfied that the operator of those premises has in place a system for tracing through the manufacturing process all specified bovine material delivered to him sufficient to demonstrate—\n(a) that all specified bovine material delivered is either used in the manufacturing process or disposed of in accordance with conditions specified in the approval; and\n(b) that no product manufactured in the process is used as, in connection with or in the manufacture of any food or feeding stuff or any cosmetic, pharmaceutical or medical product.\n(3) Any person delivering specified bovine material to premises approved under this article shall state in writing to the operator of the premises concerned the place from which that specified bovine material was collected for delivery to those premises.\n(4) No person shall process specified bovine material at premises approved under this article except in accordance with the conditions of the approval.\n(5) The operator of such approved premises shall record on arrival of specified bovine material at the premises—\n(a) the weight of the specified bovine material delivered;\n(b) the date of delivery; and\n(c) the place from which it was consigned,\nand shall keep such records for two years from the date of arrival.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/617/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:23:16.085393+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."
}