Article 8 Specified risk material for consumption by any creatureI1

Northern Ireland

(1)

A person shall not sell any specified risk material for use in the preparation of any feedingstuff.

(2)

A person shall not use any specified risk material in the preparation of any feedingstuff.

(3)

A person shall not sell any specified risk material, or any feedingstuff containing specified risk material, for feeding to any creature.

(4)

A person shall not feed to any creature—

(a)

any specified risk material;

(b)

any feedingstuff containing specified risk material; or

(c)

a whole carcase or any part of a ruminant animal from which specified risk material has not been removed in accordance with the Specified Risk Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997.

(5)

For the purposes of this Article a feedingstuff shall be treated as containing specified risk material if it contains anything derived from it.

(6)

Nothing in paragraphs (1) to (4) shall prevent—

(a)

the feeding to any creature of any specified risk material or any feedingstuffs for research purposes at a research establishment under the authority of a licence issued by the Department;

(b)

the sale of any specified risk material or any feedingstuff for such purposes; or

(c)

the use of specified risk material in the preparation of feedingstuffs for such purposes.

(7)

A person shall not be considered to have contravened any prohibitions in paragraphs (1) to (4) in relation to any specified risk material or any feedingstuff where he is able to prove that he did not know or have any reason to believe that the material was, or the feedingstuff contained, specified risk material.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Art. 8 in operation at 1.1.1998, see art. 1