{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-regulations-northern-ireland-2018/schedule-2/paragraph-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-regulations-northern-ireland-2018/schedule-2/paragraph-9.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2018/213",
  "legislation_title": "The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-regulations-northern-ireland-2018",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/9",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Brain stem sampling of bovine animals (slaughterhouses)",
  "text": "(1) The occupier of a slaughterhouse in which a bovine animal specified in point 2 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III, is slaughtered or (if the animal has been slaughtered at a place other than the slaughterhouse) processed must—\n(a) take a sample comprising the brain stem for testing in accordance with point 1 of Chapter C of Annex X;\n(b) ensure that the animal from which the sample has been taken can be identified; and\n(c) arrange for the sample to be delivered to an approved testing laboratory,\nand failure to do so is an offence.\n(2) The Department must, notify the occupier of a slaughterhouse if an animal comes into any of the categories specified in point 2(1) of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III (except in the case of a dead animal consigned to a slaughterhouse with a written declaration from a veterinary surgeon that it falls into one of those categories).\n(3) In accordance with point 5 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III, the Department may serve a notice on the occupier of a slaughterhouse requiring them to take a sample from any bovine animal slaughtered there and send the sample for testing in accordance with sub-paragraph (1).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2018/213/schedule/2/paragraph/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:48:03.202378+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."
}