{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-material-order-1997/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-material-order-1997/article-6.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/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Prohibitions applying to the vertebral column",
  "text": "(1) No person shall use the vertebral column of a bovine animal in the recovery of meat by mechanical means.\n(2) No person shall use, in the preparation of food for sale for human consumption, any meat which has been recovered by mechanical means from the vertebral column of a bovine animal.\n(3) Without prejudice to regulation 3 of the Bovine Products (Production and Despatch) Regulations 1997, no person shall use the vertebral column of a bovine animal from which meat has been cut, to produce food other than fat or gelatin for sale for human consumption.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/389. These Regulations impose restrictions on the use of bovine vertebral column in the production of gelatin, tallow and other by-products for use in food, feeding stuffs, cosmetic, pharmaceutical and medical products."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/617/article/6",
    "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."
}