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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-scotland-regulations-2010/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2010/177",
  "legislation_title": "The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Scotland) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-scotland-regulations-2010",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Brain stem sampling of bovine animals (slaughterhouses)",
  "text": "(1) The occupier of a slaughterhouse in which a bovine animal which must be tested in accordance with point 2 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III to the EU TSE Regulation (monitoring in animals slaughtered for human consumption) is slaughtered or (if the animal is slaughtered at a place other than a 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 to the EU TSE Regulation (sampling);\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 Scottish Ministers must, by means of a notice, 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 to the EU TSE Regulation (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) For the purposes of point 5 of Part I of Chapter A of Annex III to the EU TSE Regulation (monitoring in other animals), the Scottish Ministers may serve a notice on the occupier of a slaughterhouse requiring the occupier to take a sample from any bovine animal slaughtered there and send it for testing in accordance with sub�??paragraph (1).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/177/schedule/2/paragraph/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:55:54.430024+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."
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