Explanatory note

These Regulations revoke and remake with amendments the Specified Bovine Offal (Treatment and Disposal) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 and the Mechanically Recovered Meat Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 which implemented various directives as specified in those Regulations. They provide that bovine heads (other than tongues) shall be disposed of as specified bovine material as well as the materials specified in the earlier Regulations.