Regulation 2 Amendment of the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997

The Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997^f1 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

At the end of regulation 7 there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(5)

This regulation shall not apply to a food containing specified risk material derived only from animals which were slaughtered or died outside the United Kingdom which is either—

(a)

a food not listed in Schedule 1 to the Specified Risk Material Order 1997^f2; or

(b)

a food which is so listed, but it was, or any ingredients in it containing specified risk material were, imported in accordance with article 6 of that Order.”.

At the end of regulation 19 there shall be added the following paragraph—

“(2)

This regulation shall not apply to a carcase of a sheep or goat slaughtered before 1st January 1998.”.