{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/552",
  "legislation_title": "The Specified Risk Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Exceptions from the requirement to stain specified risk material",
  "text": "The requirements in regulations 9 and 10 to stain specified risk material shall not apply—\n(a) if the specified risk material is to be sent to a veterinary or medical school, laboratory, hospital or similar institution for instructional, diagnostic or research purposes;\n(b) to specified risk material which is intended to be used at premises approved under Article 10 of the Specified Risk Material Order (Northern Ireland) 1997;\n(c) to specified solid waste.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 12 in operation at 1.1.1998, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "nisr/2002/225",
      "affecting_title": "Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/552/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:25:48.982052+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."
}