{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-regulations-2006/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/68",
  "legislation_title": "The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-regulations-2006",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Exception for research",
  "text": "(1) The provisions of Schedules 2 to 6 do not apply in relation to animals kept for the purposes of research in premises approved for that purpose under this regulation by the Secretary of State.\n(2) If a bovine animal, sheep or goat kept in approved research premises or its progeny dies or is killed, the occupier must dispose of it as a Category 1 animal by-product in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1774/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down health rules concerning animal by-products not intended for human consumption, and failure to do so is an offence.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.3.2006, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L273, 10.2.2002, p. 1 as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 93/2005, OJ No. L19, 21.1.2005, p. 34."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "uksi/2006/68",
      "affecting_title": "The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations 2006"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/68/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:39:27.507090+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."
}