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The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018

S.R. 2018/213 · Made 13 December 2018 · Extends to Northern Ireland

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Animal Health

Made 13th December 2018

Coming into operation 3rd January 2019

The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs M1 under the powers conferred by section 2(2) of, as read with paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to, the European Communities Act 1972 M2 makes the following Regulations.

It is designated M3 for the purposes of that section in relation to measures in the veterinary and phytosanitary fields for the protection of public health.

It has carried out the consultation required by Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety M4.

These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and it appears to the Department that it is expedient for references to EU instruments referred to in Schedule 1 to be construed as references to those instruments as amended from time to time.

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M1

Formerly the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD see Article 3(4) of the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1)). DARD was renamed the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) by Article 1(2) of the Departments Act (Northern Ireland) 2016 c.5 (N.I.)).

M2

1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and section 3(3) of the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)

M3

S.I. 1999/2027

M4

O.J. No. L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EU) No. 2017/228 (O.J. No. L 35, 10.2.2017, p. 10)

Contents

  1. Part I: GENERAL PROVISIONS
  2. 1Citation and commencement
  3. 2Interpretation
  4. 3Appointment of competent authority
  5. 4Exception for research
  6. Part II: TSE CONTROLS
  7. 5TSE requirements
  8. 6The Schedules
  9. Part III: ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
  10. 7Approvals, authorisations, licences and registrations
  11. 8Occupier's duty
  12. 9Suspension and amendment of official documents
  13. 10Revocations of official documents
  14. 11Appeals
  15. 12Valuations
  16. 13Appointment of inspectors
  17. 14Powers of entry
  18. 15Powers of inspectors
  19. 16Notices
  20. 17Notices restricting movement
  21. 18Obstruction
  22. 19Penalties
  23. 20Enforcement
  24. 21Consequential amendment
  25. 22Revocation
  26. 23Transitional Provisions
  27. Signature
  28. Schedule 1TSE REQUIREMENTS
  29. Schedule 2: TSE MONITORING
  30. 1Notification of the body of a caprine animal for the purpose of monitoring under Article 6
  31. 2Arrangements in respect of the body of a bovine animal for the purpose of monitoring under Article 6
  32. 3Persons collecting and delivering the body of a bovine animal
  33. 4Brain stem sampling of the body of a bovine animal (Approved TSE sampling sites)
  34. 5Destruction without sampling
  35. 6Retention and disposal of the body of a bovine animal pending test results
  36. 7Remote Areas
  37. 8Consignment and slaughter of an over-age bovine animal
  38. 9Brain stem sampling of bovine animals (slaughterhouses)
  39. 10Brain stem sampling of the body of a bovine animal (other places of slaughter)
  40. 11Approval of laboratories
  41. 12Approved TSE sampling sites
  42. 13Retention of products and disposal
  43. 14TSE sampling of ovine, caprine and cervine animals
  44. 15Compensation
  45. Schedule 3: CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF TSE IN BOVINE ANIMALS
  46. 1Control and eradication of TSE - notification
  47. 2Restriction of a notified animal
  48. 3Slaughter of a suspect animal
  49. 4Identification and restriction of offspring and cohorts
  50. 5Action following confirmation of TSE
  51. 6Action where TSE is not confirmed
  52. 7Death while under restriction
  53. 8Prohibitions from placing on the market of bovine progeny
  54. 9When compensation is payable
  55. 10Compensation for a suspect animal
  56. 11Compensation for a cohort animal
  57. 12Compensation for an offspring animal
  58. 13Compensation for Buffalo and Bison
  59. 14Assessment of market value
  60. 15Definitions
  61. 16Returns
  62. Schedule 4: CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF TSE IN OVINE AND CAPRINE ANIMALS
  63. 1Notification of TSE
  64. 2Restriction of a notified animal
  65. 3Slaughter of a suspect animal
  66. 4Movement restrictions
  67. 5Action where TSE is not confirmed
  68. 6Confirmation of a TSE other than BSE or atypical scrapie in ovine or caprine animals
  69. 7Use of milk or milk products following confirmation of classical scrapie
  70. 8Inability to exclude BSE in ovine or caprine animals
  71. 9Confirmation of atypical scrapie in ovine or caprine animals
  72. 10Derogation
  73. 11Time for appeals
  74. 12Killing and destruction following confirmation
  75. 13Infected animals from other premises
  76. 14Common grazing
  77. 15Multiple flocks on any premises
  78. 16Change of occupier
  79. 17Introduction of an animal onto any premises
  80. 18Use of ovine germinal products
  81. 19Movement of an animal from any premises
  82. 20Time of movement restrictions
  83. 21Death while under restriction
  84. 22Prohibitions from placing on the market of progeny of a BSE affected ovine or caprine animal
  85. 23Compensation for animals killed or products destroyed following confirmation of TSE
  86. 24Valuations
  87. 25Compensation for milk or milk products compulsorily destroyed in accordance with paragraph 8
  88. Schedule 5: CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF TSE IN ANIMALS OTHER THAN BOVINE, OVINE OR CAPRINE ANIMALS
  89. 1Notification
  90. 2Restriction of a notified animal
  91. 3Slaughter of a suspect animal
  92. 4Compensation for an animal that is not bovine, ovine or caprine slaughtered as a suspect animal
  93. Schedule 6: FEEDINGSTUFFS
  94. 1Prohibition on feeding animal protein to ruminants
  95. 2Prohibition on feeding animal protein to non-ruminants
  96. 3Movement prohibitions and restrictions of animals
  97. 4Slaughter of an animal
  98. 5Compensation
  99. 6Slaughter or sale for human consumption
  100. Schedule 7: SPECIFIED RISK MATERIAL, MECHANICALLY SEPARATED MEAT AND SLAUGHTERING TECHNIQUES
  101. 1Appointment of the Food Standards Agency as the competent authority
  102. 2Training
  103. 3Mechanically separated meat
  104. 4Pithing
  105. 5Tongue harvesting
  106. 6Head meat harvesting
  107. 7Removal of specified risk material
  108. 8Bovine animals in a slaughterhouse
  109. 9Ovine and caprine animals in a slaughterhouse
  110. 10Bovine, ovine and caprine animals, in other places of slaughter
  111. 11Young lamb and goat stamps
  112. 12Removal of spinal cord from ovine and caprine animals
  113. 13Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards Agency
  114. 14Removal of specified risk material at a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 13(1)
  115. 15Meat from a member State
  116. 16Staining and disposal of specified risk material
  117. 17Security of specified risk material
  118. 18Prohibition on the sale, supply or possession for sale or supply of specified risk material for human consumption
  119. Schedule 8: RESTRICTIONS ON PLACING ON THE MARKET AND EXPORT
  120. 1Placing on the market or export to third countries of bovine products
  121. 2Placing on the market or export to third countries of bovine animals
  122. 3Export to a member State of heads and un-split carcases
  123. 4Export to third countries of products containing specified risk material
  124. 5Further offences relating to placing on the market and export
  125. Explanatory note