{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-england-regulations-2018/schedule-7/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-england-regulations-2018/schedule-7/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2018/731",
  "legislation_title": "The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-england-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule/7/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Bovine animals in a slaughterhouse",
  "text": "(1) When a bovine animal is slaughtered in a slaughterhouse, or the carcase of a bovine animal is transported to a slaughterhouse following emergency killing elsewhere, the occupier of the slaughterhouse must—\n(a) take the action in (b) as soon as is reasonably practicable after the kill, and in any event before post-mortem inspection;\n(b) that action is to remove all specified risk material from the carcase, other than those parts of the vertebral column that are specified risk material.\n(2) The occupier of the slaughterhouse must—\n(a) as soon as is reasonably practicable after post-mortem inspection, consign any offal that has been removed from the carcase, and that contains or is attached to specified risk material, to an appropriate area of the slaughterhouse, and\n(b) as soon as is reasonably practicable after the offal is consigned to an appropriate area, and in any event before the offal is removed from the slaughterhouse, remove the specified risk material from the remaining offal.\n(3) As soon as is reasonably practicable after slaughter the occupier of a slaughterhouse must consign any bovine carcase containing parts of the vertebral column that are specified risk material to—\n(a) a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 8(1)(a) of this Schedule;\n(b) a cutting plant located in another part of the United Kingdom and authorised under the corresponding provision applicable in that part;\n(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) The occupier must label bovine carcasses or wholesale cuts containing vertebral column with a clearly visible red stripe on the label.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 3(3)(c) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animal By-Products and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1120), regs. 1(1), 3(3)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/731/schedule/7/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:56:37.442602+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."
}