# Specified Bovine Material Order (Northern Ireland) 1996, Article 4: Prohibition on sale, supply and use of certain feedingstuffs for feeding to animals and poultry

Extent: N.I.

(1) Subject to paragraph (2) a person shall not—
(a) knowingly 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;
(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;
(c) knowingly 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;
(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;
(e) use any specified bovine material in the preparation of feedingstuffs for poultry or animals;
(f) sell any specified bovine material for use in the preparation of feedingstuffs for poultry or animals;
(g) knowingly sell or supply for feeding to poultry or animals any feedingstuffs in which he knows or has reason to suspect any mammalian meat and bone meal has been incorporated; or
(h) after 4th April 1996 feed to poultry or animals any feedingstuffs in which he knows or has reason to suspect that any mammalian meat and bone meal has been incorporated.
(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall prevent the sale or supply for feeding or the feeding, under and in accordance with the conditions of a licence granted by the Department, to poultry or animals, other than ruminant animals, of any feedingstuffs for research purposes in a research establishment under the authority of a licence issued by the Department and in accordance with any conditions subject to which the licence is issued, or to the sale or supply of any feedingstuffs to a research establishment for such purposes.
(3) For the purposes of this Article “specified bovine material” includes anything derived from it other than fatty acids which have been extracted from tallow subjected to thermal hydrolysis at hyperbaric pressure.
(4) A person shall not use any mammalian meat and bone meal in the preparation of feedingstuffs for any animal in premises where feedingstuffs for livestock, fish or equine animals is prepared.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/133/article/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-material-order-northern-ireland-1996/article-4
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