Regulation 3 Amendment of the Specified Risk Material Order 1997

In relation to Wales, the Specified Risk Material Order 1997 ^f1 shall be amended in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Regulation.

The following paragraph shall be substituted for pararaph (1) of article 4 (specified bovine material) —

“(1)

In this Order, “specified bovine material” means —

(a)

the intestines from the duodenum to the rectum of any bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died elsewhere than in Australia or New Zealand;

(b)

the following material derived from a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom or Portugal at an age greater than 6 months —

(i)

the head (excluding the tongue but including the brain, eyes, trigeminal ganglia and tonsils);

(ii)

the thymus;

(iii)

the spleen; and

(iv)

the spinal cord;

(c)

in relation to a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died at an age greater than 30 months, other than one which was accompanied at the time of slaughter by a slaughter certificate issued under the Beef Assurance Scheme as described in Schedule 1 to the Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) (No. 2) Regulations 1996), the vertebral column, including dorsal root ganglia; and

(d)

the following material derived from a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died at an age greater than 12 months elsewhere than in the United Kingdom, Portugal, Australia or New Zealand —

(i)

the skull (including the brains and eyes);

(ii)

the tonsils; and

(iii)

the spinal cord.”.