{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-material-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-material-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/231",
  "legislation_title": "Specified Bovine Material Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-material-order-northern-ireland-1997",
  "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 purposes of receiving and processing specified bovine material.\n(2) A person shall not operate a rendering plant for specified bovine material or take delivery of specified bovine material at a rendering plant, unless it has been licensed by the Department in accordance with paragraph (1).\n(3) A person delivering specified bovine material to 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 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 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 material and rendered separately from other material.\n(6) The operator of 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) Except in accordance with paragraph (8), 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 Department may, on application, licence the operator of an approved rendering plant to use equipment previously used for processing specified bovine material for such other purpose as may be specified in the licence, provided that, before use for such other purposes, the equipment concerned is cleaned to the satisfaction of the Department in accordance with any conditions specified in that licence.\n(9) The operator of the rendering plant shall keep a record of the weight of protein, and a separate record of the weight of tallow, consigned from the plant and, in each case, the date of such consignment and the place of destination.\n(10) Any record kept under paragraph (9) shall be retained by the operator of the rendering plant for 2 years from the date of the consignment to which it relates.\n(11) 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(12) 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(13) 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 1.5.1997, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/231/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:28:53.985570+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."
}