{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-10.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/551",
  "legislation_title": "Specified Risk Material Order (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-order-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Approved premises not producing food, feedingstuffs or cosmetic, pharmaceutical or medical products",
  "text": "(1) Where the Department is satisfied that—\n(a) any premises are suitable to process class II specified risk material for use in a manufacturing process;\n(b) those premises are not being used for the production of any food or feedingstuffs or any cosmetic, pharmaceutical or medical product or any thing likely to come into direct contact with any such materials;\n(c) following an inspection of the premises by a veterinary inspector, the operator of those premises has in place a system for tracing through the manufacturing process all specified risk material delivered to him sufficient to demonstrate—\n(i) that all class II specified risk material delivered to him is either used in the manufacturing process or disposed of in accordance with such conditions as are specified in the licence; and\n(ii) that no product manufactured in the process is used as, in connection with or in the production of any food or feedingstuff or any cosmetic, pharmaceutical or medical product; and\n(d) the use of class II specified risk material in the manufacturing process in the premises does not pose a risk to human or animal health,\nthe Department may licence those premises for the purpose of using class II specified risk material in that manufacturing process.\n(2) Any person delivering specified risk material to licenced premises shall state in writing to the operator of those premises the place from which that specified risk material was collected for delivery to those premises.\n(3) The operator of licenced premises shall record on the arrival of class II specified risk material—\n(a) the weight of the class II specified risk material delivered;\n(b) the date of delivery; and\n(c) the place from which it was collected for delivery to those premises,\nand shall keep such records for two years from the date of arrival.\n(4) A person shall not process specified risk material at licenced premises except in accordance with any conditions specified in the licence.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 10 in operation at 1.1.1998, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/1",
      "affecting_title": "Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001 (revoked)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/551/article/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:25:49.559030+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."
}