# The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (England) Regulations 2018, Paragraph 4: Ovine and caprine animals in a slaughterhouse

Extent: E+W

(1) When an ovine or caprine animal is slaughtered in a slaughterhouse, or the carcase of an ovine or caprine animal is transported to a slaughterhouse following emergency killing elsewhere, the occupier of the slaughterhouse must—
(a) take the action in (b) as soon as is reasonably practicable after the kill, and in any event before post-mortem inspection;
(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.
(2) The occupier of the slaughterhouse must—
(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
(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.
(3) In the case of an ovine or caprine animal aged over 12 months at slaughter, or that has a permanent incisor erupted through the gum, the occupier of the slaughterhouse must—
(a) remove the spinal cord as soon as is reasonably practicable , and in any event before the post-mortem inspection, or
(b) as soon as is reasonably practicable, send the whole carcase for removal of the spinal cord to—
(i) a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 8(1)(b) of this Schedule, or
(ii) a cutting plant located in another part of the United Kingdom and authorised under the corresponding provision applicable in that part.
(iii) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/731/schedule/7/paragraph/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-england-regulations-2018/schedule-7/paragraph-4
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