{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-order-northern-ireland-1997/article-9.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/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Prohibition on the removal of brain and eyes",
  "text": "A person shall not 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, feedingstuffs and any cosmetic, pharmaceutical or medical product.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 9 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)"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/551/article/9",
    "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."
}