# The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (revoked)

S.R. 2010/406 · made 6 December 2010 · revised to 3 January 2019

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PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-regulations-northern-ireland-2010-revoked/pdf/nisr_20100406_en.pdf; Explanatory Memorandum https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-regulations-northern-ireland-2010-revoked/pdf/nisrem_20100406_en.pdf

## Introductory text

Animal Health
Made 6th December 2010
Coming into operation 31st December 2010
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## Part I: GENERAL PROVISIONS

## 1 Citation and commencement

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## 2 Interpretation

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## 3 Appointment of competent authority

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## 4 Exception for research

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## Part II: INTRODUCTION OF SCHEDULES

## 5 The Schedules

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## Part III: ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT

## 6 Approvals, authorisations, licences and registrations

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## 7 Occupier’s duty

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## 8 Suspension and amendment of official documents

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## 9 Revocations of official documents

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## 10 Appeals

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## 11 Valuations

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## 12 Appointment of inspectors

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## 13 Powers of entry

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## 14 Powers of inspectors

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## 15 Notices

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## 16 Notices restricting movement

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## 17 Obstruction

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## 18 Penalties

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## 19 Enforcement

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## 20 Amendment of the Animal By-Products (Identification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

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## 21 Consequential amendments

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## 22 Revocations

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## Signature

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## Schedule 1 AMBULATORY REFERENCES

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## Schedule 2: TSE MONITORING

### Part I: MONITORING FOR TSE

## 1 Notification of the body of a goat for the purpose of monitoring under Article 6 of the EU TSE Regulation

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## 2 Arrangements in respect of the body of a bovine animal for the purpose of monitoring under Article 6 of the EU TSE Regulation

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## 3 Persons collecting and delivering the body of a bovine animal

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## 4 Brain stem sampling of the body of a bovine animal (Approved TSE sampling sites)

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## 5 Destruction without sampling

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## 6 Retention and disposal of the body of a bovine animal pending test results

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## 7 Remote Areas

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## 8 Consignment and slaughter of an over-age bovine animal

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## 9 Brain stem sampling of bovine animals (slaughterhouses)

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## 10 Brain stem sampling of the body of a bovine animal (other places of slaughter)

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## 11 Approval of laboratories

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## 12 Approved TSE sampling sites

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## 13 Slaughter of bovine animals

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## 14 Retention of products and disposal

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## 15 TSE sampling of sheep, goats and deer

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## 16 Compensation

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### Part II: CONTENTS OF A REQUIRED METHOD OF OPERATION (RMOP)

## 1 Animal identification and separation

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## 2 Brain stem sampling

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## 3 Correlation of sample to carcase and all other parts of the body

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## 4 Retention of carcases

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## 5 Retention of parts of the body

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## 6 Disposal before receipt of the result

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## 7 Other measures following brain stem sampling

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## Schedule 3: CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF TSE IN BOVINE ANIMALS

## 1 Control and eradication of TSE - notification

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## 2 Restriction of a notified animal

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## 3 Slaughter of a suspect animal

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## 4 Identification and restriction of offspring and cohorts

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## 5 Action following confirmation of TSE

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## 6 Action where TSE is not confirmed

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## 7 Death while under restriction

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## 8 Placing on the market of bovine progeny

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## 9 When compensation is payable

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## 10 Compensation for a suspect animal

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## 11 Compensation for a cohort animal

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## 12 Compensation for an offspring animal

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## 13 Compensation for Buffalo and Bison

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## 14 Assessment of market value

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## 15 Definitions

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## 16 Returns

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## Schedule 4: CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF TSE IN SHEEP AND GOATS

## 1 Notification of TSE

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## 2 Restriction of a notified animal

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## 3 Slaughter of a suspect animal

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## 4 Movement restrictions

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## 5 Action where TSE is not confirmed

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## 6 Confirmation of TSE in sheep

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## 7 Confirmation of TSE in goats

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## 8 Use of milk or milk products following confirmation of classical scrapie

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## 9 Inability to exclude BSE in sheep or goats

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## 10 Confirmation of atypical scrapie in sheep or goats

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## 11 Derogation

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## 12 Time for appeals

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## 13 Killing and destruction following confirmation

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## 14 Infected animals from other premises

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## 15 Common grazing

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## 16 Multiple flocks on any premises

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## 17 Subsequent occupiers

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## 18 Introduction of an animal onto any premises

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## 19 Use of ovine germinal products

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## 20 Movement of an animal from any premises

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## 21 Time of movement restrictions

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## 22 Death while under restriction

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## 23 Placing on the market of progeny of a BSE affected sheep or goat

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## 24 Compensation for a sheep or goat slaughtered as a suspect animal

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## 25 Compensation for animals killed or products destroyed following confirmation of TSE

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## 26 Valuations

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## 27 Compensation for milk or milk products compulsorily destroyed in accordance with paragraph 9

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## Schedule 5: CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF TSE IN ANIMALS OTHER THAN BOVINE, OVINE OR CAPRINE ANIMALS

## 1 Notification

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## 2 Restriction of a notified animal

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## 3 Slaughter of a suspect animal

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## 4 Compensation for an animal that is not bovine, ovine or caprine slaughtered as a suspect animal

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## Schedule 6: FEEDINGSTUFFS

### Part I: RESTRICTIONS ON FEEDING PROTEINS TO ANIMALS

## 1 Prohibition on feeding animal protein to ruminants

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## 2 Prohibition on feeding animal protein to non-ruminants

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## 3 Exceptions

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## 4 Movement prohibitions and restrictions of animals

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## 5 Slaughter of an animal

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## 6 Compensation

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## 7 Slaughter or sale for human consumption

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### Part II: PRODUCTION OF PROTEIN AND FEEDINGSTUFFS

## 1 Fishmeal for feeding to non-ruminant farmed animals

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## 2 Fishmeal for feeding to unweaned, ruminant farmed animals

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## 3 Offences relating to fishmeal and feedingstuffs containing fishmeal

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## 4 Feedingstuffs containing dicalcium phosphate or tricalcium phosphate for feeding to non-ruminant animals

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## 5 Offences relating to feedingstuffs containing dicalcium phosphate or tricalcium phosphate for feeding to non-ruminant animals

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## 6 Blood products and blood meal

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## 7 Offences relating to feedingstuffs containing blood products or blood meal

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## 8 Change in use of equipment

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## 9 Conditions applying to the storage and transport of bulk quantities of protein products and feedingstuffs containing such proteins

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## 10 Conditions applying to the manufacture and transport of feedingstuffs, including petfood

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## 11 Export of processed animal protein to third countries

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## 12 Fertilisers

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## 13 Record keeping for transport etc. of reject petfood

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## 14 Cross-contamination of materials originating from premises where processed animal proteins (except fishmeal) are in use

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## Schedule 7: SPECIFIED RISK MATERIAL, MECHANICALLY SEPARATED MEAT AND SLAUGHTERING TECHNIQUES

## 1 Appointment of the Food Standards Agency as the competent authority

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## 2 Training

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## 3 Mechanically separated meat

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## 4 Pithing

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## 5 Tongue harvesting

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## 6 Head meat harvesting

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## 7 Removal of specified risk material

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## 8 Bovine animals in a slaughterhouse

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## 9 Sheep and goats in a slaughterhouse

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## 10 Bovine animals, sheep and goats in other places of slaughter

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## 11 Young lamb and goat stamps

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## 12 Removal of spinal cord from sheep and goats

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## 13 Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards Agency

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## 14 Removal of specified risk material at a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 13(1)

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## 15 Meat from a member State

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## 16 Staining and disposal of specified risk material

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## 17 Security of specified risk material

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## 18 Prohibition on the sale, supply or possession for sale or supply of specified risk material for human consumption

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## Schedule 8: RESTRICTIONS ON PLACING ON THE MARKET AND EXPORT

## 1 Placing on the market or export to third countries of bovine products

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## 2 Placing on the market or export to third countries of bovine animals

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## 3 Export to a member State of heads and un-split carcases

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## 4 Export to third countries of products containing specified risk material

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## 5 Further offences relating to placing on the market and export

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## Explanatory note

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2010/406 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-regulations-northern-ireland-2010-revoked
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