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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-14",
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  "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/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Prohibition on the removal of brain and eyes",
  "text": "(1) A person shall not on any premises remove the brain or eyes from the carcase of bovine animal aged greater than 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 intended for human consumption.\n(2) The prohibition in paragraph (1) shall not apply to the removal under Article 29 of the Order of the eyeballs of bovines, sheep or goats at the place of slaughter by a veterinary inspector or other authorised officer of the Department for the purposes of analysis under Article 31(1) of the Order.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 14 in operation at 1.1.1998, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/295",
      "affecting_title": "Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/295",
      "affecting_title": "Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 (revoked)"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/78",
      "affecting_title": "Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    },
    {
      "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/14",
    "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."
}