{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-material-order-northern-ireland-1996/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-material-order-northern-ireland-1996/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1996/133",
  "legislation_title": "Specified Bovine Material Order (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-material-order-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Rendering plants",
  "text": "(1) Upon the Department being satisfied that any premises have the facilities specified in Part I of the Schedule sufficient to enable the specified bovine material to be separated into protein and tallow by one of the processes specified in Part II of that Schedule it may, on application, licence those premises and facilities for the purpose of receiving and processing specified bovine material.\n(2) A person shall not take delivery of specified bovine material at a rendering plant, or operate a rendering plant for specified bovine material, unless it has been licensed by the Department in accordance with paragraph (1).\n(3) A person delivering specified bovine material to such a rendering plant shall state in writing to the operator of the rendering plant concerned the place that bovine material was collected for delivery to that rendering plant.\n(4) The operator of such a rendering plant shall record on the 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 2 years from the date of arrival.\n(5) The operator of such a rendering plant shall ensure that all specified bovine material in the rendering plant is kept and stored separately from all other material, handled separately from other materials and rendered separately from other materials.\n(6) The operator of such a rendering plant shall ensure that specified bovine material is processed without undue delay and in any event within 7 days of delivery using one of the methods described in Part II of the Schedule.\n(7) The operator of the rendering plant shall ensure that any equipment used for processing specified bovine material is used only for that purpose.\n(8) The operator of the rendering plant shall keep a record for 2 years of the weight of protein consigned and a separate record of the weight of tallow consigned and, in each case, the date of such consignment and the point of destination.\n(9) The operator of the rendering plant shall ensure that all containers, receptacles and vehicles which have been used for the transport of specified bovine material are cleansed and disinfected with an approved disinfectant before they leave the premises.\n(10) A person shall not move from the unclean section of the rendering plant (as specified by the occupier in accordance with paragraph 5 of Part I of the Schedule) into the clean section without first changing his working clothes and footwear or cleansing and disinfecting the latter with an approved disinfectant.\n(11) A person shall not take equipment and utensils from the unclean section into the clean section of the rendering plant unless the equipment and utensils are first washed and disinfected.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 6 in operation at 29.3.1996, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/185",
      "affecting_title": "Specified Bovine Material (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/133/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:36:45.768656+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."
}