{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-offal-amendment-order-1995/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-offal-amendment-order-1995/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/3246",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Bovine Offal (Amendment) Order 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-bovine-offal-amendment-order-1995",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order amends the Specified Bovine Offal Order 1995 by inserting a new article 4A which imposes certain restrictions on the use of the vertebral column of bovine animals, and a new article 4B which imposes a registration requirement, effective from 31st January 1996, for those premises on which meat is recovered by mechanical means from bovine animals (article 2(3)).\nThis Order also amends article 21 of the principal Order so as to extend the restriction on exports from Great Britain to other member States to meat recovered by mechanical means from the vertebral column of bovine animals which is intended for human consumption (article 2(4)). The Order specifically excludes from the expression “mechanical means” the use of hand held powered knives which do not use powered pressure or suction (article 2(2)).\nA Compliance Cost Assessment has been prepared and placed in the library of each House of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from the Animal Health (Disease Control) Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Government Buildings, Hook Rise South, Tolworth, Surbiton, Surrey, KT6 7NF.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/3246/note",
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  "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."
}