{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-4.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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Specified bovine material",
  "text": "(1) In this Order “class I specified bovine material” means in relation to a bovine animal—\n(a) the skull, including the brain and eyes, tonsils and spinal cord, of an animal which was slaughtered or died outside the United Kingdom at an age greater than twelve months;\n(b) the brains, spinal cord, thymus, tonsils, spleen and intestines of an animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom at an age greater than six months; and\n(c) the skull (including the eyes) of an animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom at an age greater than twelve months.\n(2) In this Order “class II specified bovine material” means in relation to a bovine animal—\n(a) the head of an animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom at an age of six months or greater, except—\n(i) any part of the head which is class I specified bovine material; and\n(ii) the tongue, where it is removed from the head immediately after slaughter and before the head is stained in accordance with the Specified Risk Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997; and\n(b) the thymus and intestines of an animal which—\n(i) died or was slaughtered in the United Kingdom at an age of two months or greater but less than six months; or\n(ii) was slaughtered in the United Kingdom at an age of less than two months for human consumption.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 4 in operation at 1.1.1998, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2001/1",
      "affecting_title": "Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words deleted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2002/225",
      "affecting_title": "Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/551/article/4",
    "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."
}