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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-regulations-1997/regulation-24",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/2965",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Approved rendering plants",
  "text": "(1) Any person delivering specified risk material to an approved rendering plant shall state in writing to the operator of the rendering plant concerned the place from which that specified risk material was collected for delivery to that rendering plant.\n(2) No person shall take delivery of specified risk material at a rendering plant, or operate a rendering plant for specified risk material, unless it has been approved as having the facilities specified in Part I of Schedule 1 to these Regulations sufficient to enable it to separate the specified risk material into protein and tallow by one of the methods specified in Part II of that Schedule.\n(3) The operator of an approved rendering plant shall make a consignment record on the arrival of specified risk material at the premises and shall keep that record for two years from the date of arrival.\n(4) Without prejudice to the storage requirements of regulation 28 below, the operator of an approved rendering plant shall ensure that all specified risk material in the rendering plant is kept and stored separately from all other material, handled separately from other material and rendered separately from other material.\n(5) The operator of an approved rendering plant shall ensure that specified risk material is processed without undue delay and in any event within seven days of delivery using one of the methods described in Part II of Schedule 1 to these Regulations.\n(6) The operator of an approved rendering plant shall ensure (except as provided by paragraph (7) below) that any equipment used for processing specified risk material is used only for that purpose.\n(7) Subject to paragraph (8) below, the Minister may, on application by the operator of an approved rendering plant, consent to the use for other purposes of equipment previously used for processing specified risk material.\n(8) No consent given pursuant to paragraph (7) above shall be effective until the Minister has indicated in writing that he is satisfied that the equipment concerned has been cleaned in accordance with any conditions specified in that consent.\n(9) After the specified risk material has been processed and separated into protein and tallow the operator of the plant shall ensure that—\n(a) all protein is placed in a container labelled “specified risk material” and disposed of—\n(i) by burial at a landfill site for which there exists a current waste management licence granted under section 35 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990;\n(ii) as specified in the approval; or\n(iii) by sending to an approved incinerator; and\n(b) all tallow is placed in a container labelled “specified risk material” and—\n(i) disposed of by burial at a landfill site for which there exists a current waste management licence granted under section 35 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990;\n(ii) in the case of tallow derived from class II specified risk material, sent to premises approved under article 10 of the Specified Risk Material Order 1997 either for treatment by thermal hydrolysis at hyperbaric pressure or for use in such other process as is specified in the approval of those premises;\n(iii) disposed of as specified in the approval; or\n(iv) sent to an approved incinerator.\n(10) Protein and tallow produced from animal material, other than specified risk material, from scheme animals shall be disposed of by burning in a manner which has been authorised under the Environmental Protection Act 1990.\n(11) The operator of an approved rendering plant shall keep a consignment record for two years in relation to all protein and tallow consigned for disposal pursuant to paragraph (9) or (10) above.\n(12) The operator of an approved rendering plant shall ensure that all containers, receptacles and vehicles which have been used for the transport of specified risk material are cleaned, washed and disinfected before they leave the premises.\n(13) No person shall move from the unclean section of an approved rendering plant (as specified by the occupier in accordance with paragraph 3 of Part I of Schedule 1 to these Regulations) into the clean section without first changing his working clothes and footwear or disinfecting the latter.\n(14) No person shall take equipment or untensils from the unclean section into the clean section of an approved rendering plant unless the equipment or utensils are first washed and disinfected.\n(15) The operator of an approved rendering plant shall ensure that systematic measures are taken to control birds, rodents, insects and other vermin on the premises.\n(16) The operator of an approved rendering plant shall ensure that the premises and equipment are kept in a good state of repair and that measuring equipment is calibrated at regular intervals.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1990 c. 43."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "am (S)",
      "affecting": "ssi/2001/86",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Risk Material Amendment (No. 2) (Scotland) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "am (E)",
      "affecting": "uksi/2001/817",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2001"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/323",
      "affecting_title": "The Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/323",
      "affecting_title": "The Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/323",
      "affecting_title": "The Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/1973",
      "affecting_title": "The Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/1973",
      "affecting_title": "The Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/1973",
      "affecting_title": "The Pollution Prevention and Control (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2672",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "ssi/2000/345",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Risk Material Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "wsi/2000/2659",
      "affecting_title": "The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "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."
}