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  "legislation_title": "The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations 2006",
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  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Sheep and goats in a slaughterhouse",
  "text": "(1) When a sheep or goat is slaughtered, the occupier of a slaughterhouse must remove all specified risk material (other than the spinal cord) as soon as is reasonably practicable after slaughter and in any event before post-mortem inspection.\n(2) In the case of a sheep or goat aged over 12 months at slaughter, or which has a permanent incisor erupted through the gum, he must as soon as is reasonably practicable after slaughter—\n(a) remove the spinal cord at the slaughterhouse before the post-mortem inspection;\n(b) send the meat to a cutting plant authorised to remove spinal cord; or\n(c) in accordance with the first paragraph of point 13 of Part A of Annex XI to the Community TSE Regulation send the meat to a cutting plant in another member State provided that the Food Standards Agency has entered into a written agreement with the competent authority of the receiving member State, and the despatch is in accordance with that agreement.\n(3) Failure to comply with this paragraph is an offence.",
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