{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-regulations-1997/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-regulations-1997/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2965",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Presence of an official veterinary surgeon",
  "text": "(1) An official veterinary surgeon, or an authorised officer, an inspector or meat technician acting under the responsibility of an official veterinary surgeon, shall be present at any slaughterhouse where any carcase of a sheep or goat that is not marked with a young lamb stamp is being loaded for delivery to authorised cutting premises, and he shall supervise the loading.\n(2) An official veterinary surgeon, or an authorised officer, an inspector or meat technician acting under the responsibility of an official veterinary surgeon, shall be present at any cutting premises where any carcase of a sheep or goat that is not marked with a young lamb stamp is being unloaded, and he shall supervise the unloading.\n(3) Immediately after the loading referred to in paragraph (1) above the delivery vehicle shall be sealed 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 may seal such a vehicle.\n(4) On arrival at authorised cutting premises a sealed vehicle shall be unsealed 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 may unseal such a vehicle.\n(5) 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 this regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/656",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/62",
      "affecting_title": "The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/2405",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Regulations 1998"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "wsi/2002/1416",
      "affecting_title": "The TSE (Wales) Regulations 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/2965/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:40:45.296941+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."
}