# The Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997, Regulation 16: The young lamb stamp


(1) Where a sheep or goat is slaughtered in a slaughterhouse, and at the time of slaughter there were no permanent incisor teeth erupted or it was aged not more than 12 months, the carcase of the animal shall be marked with the young lamb stamp.
(2) The young lamb stamp shall consist of a circular mark 5 centimetres in diameter containing in legible form in letters 1 cm high the words “MHS” and “YL”, and shall be applied by an official veterinary surgeon, or an authorised officer, an inspector or meat technician acting under the responsibility of an official veterinary surgeon, and no other person shall apply the young lamb stamp or possess the equipment for applying the stamp.
(3) No person shall use any stamp so resembling the young lamb stamp, or in such a way, as to be likely to suggest that any carcase other than a carcase of a sheep or goat in which there were no permanent incisors erupted, is such a carcase.
(4) The Minister may, in relation to any slaughterhouse or authorised cutting premises, appoint as meat technicians such number of persons as are necessary to assist the official veterinary surgeon and inspectors in carrying out their functions under paragraph (2) above.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2965/regulation/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-regulations-1997/regulation-16
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