{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-7.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/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Specified risk material for use in cosmetic, pharmaceutical and medical products",
  "text": "(1) A person shall not sell any UK specified risk material for use in the preparation or manufacture of any cosmetic, pharmaceutical or medical product.\n(2) A person shall not use any UK specified risk material in the preparation or manufacture of any ingredient to be sold for use in the preparation or manufacture of a cosmetic, pharmaceutical or medical product.\n(3) The prohibitions in paragraphs (1) and (2) shall apply to anything derived from UK specified risk material as if it were UK specified risk material.\n(4) A person shall not be considered to have contravened any prohibitions in paragraph (1) or (2) where he is able to prove that he did not know or have any reason to believe that the material was, or was derived from, UK specified risk material.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 7 in operation at 1.1.1998, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "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/7",
    "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."
}