{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/specified-risk-material-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Registration of premises on which meat is recovered by mechanical means from ruminant animals",
  "text": "(1) A person shall not on any premises recover meat by mechanical means from the carcase of a ruminant animal unless his name and the address of those premises are registered with the Department.\n(2) The Department shall keep a register for the purposes of paragraph (1).\n(3) An application for registration shall be in writing and in such form and be made in such manner as the Department may require.\n(4) The Department shall refuse to register the name of any person in respect of any premises unless the following particulars are notified to him in writing:\n(a) the name of the business, if any, to which the application relates;\n(b) the name and address of the person who carries on the business;\n(c) the address and telephone number of the business; and\n(d) the address of each premises at which meat is recovered by mechanical means from ruminant animals in the course of the business.\n(5) Any person whose name is registered under paragraph (1) shall notify the Department in writing of any change in the particulars previously notified to him within 14 days of any such change.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in operation at 1.1.1998, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/78",
      "affecting_title": "Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "word substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/78",
      "affecting_title": "Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/552/regulation/8",
    "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."
}