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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-order-1997/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-order-1997/article-9.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/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Prohibition on the removal of brain and eyes",
  "text": "No person shall remove the brain or eyes from the carcase of a bovine animal aged over six months, or from a carcase of a sheep or goat (of any age at death), except—\n(a) for the purposes of veterinary or scientific examination or research; and\n(b) in a part of the premises kept free at all times from food, feeding stuffs and any cosmetic, pharmaceutical or medical product.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2811",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2726",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) Order 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/344",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Risk Material Order Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2964/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:45.703583+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}