{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-order-1997/article-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-order-1997/article-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2964",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Risk Material Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-order-1997",
  "path": "article/14",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Recall, seizure and destruction of foods and feeding stuffs",
  "text": "(1) An inspector may serve on any person in whose possession is found any feeding stuff containing specified risk material (except a feeding stuff prepared for use in accordance with article 8(5) above), a notice requiring that person to dispose of the material, and any other material with which it has come into contact, in such manner and within such period as may be specified in the notice.\n(2) An inspector may serve on any person who has sold or supplied any feeding stuff containing specified risk material a notice requiring that person to collect at his own expense that product from the person to whom he supplied or sold it, or from such other person to whom it may have subsequently been supplied or sold, and to transport it to such place and within such time as may be specified in the notice.\n(3) It shall be a defence for any person charged with an offence under paragraph (1) or (2) above to show that he took all reasonable steps necessary to comply with the notice.\n(4) If any person on whom a notice is served under paragraph (1) or (2) above fails to comply with the requirements of the notice, an inspector may, without prejudice to any proceedings arising out of such default, carry out or cause to be carried out the requirements of the notice.\n(5) The amount of any expenses reasonably incurred by or on behalf of an inspector acting pursuant to paragraph (4) above shall be recoverable as a debt by him or by any person under whose authority he is acting from the person who was in default of the notice, unless he took all reasonable steps to comply with the notice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "wsi/2002/1416",
      "affecting_title": "The TSE (Wales) Regulations 2002"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/2002/843",
      "affecting_title": "The TSE (England) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2964/article/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:45.703583+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}