# The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Scotland) Regulations 2010, Paragraph 9: Brain stem sampling of bovine animals (other places of slaughter)


The occupier of a place—
(a) that, for the purposes of point 4.1(a) of Annex V to the EU TSE Regulation (removal of specified risk material), is an other place of slaughter; and
(b) in which a bovine animal covered by 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 must—
(i) arrange for a sample, comprising the brain stem, to be taken for testing in accordance with point 1 of Chapter C of Annex X to the EU TSE Regulation (sampling);
(ii) ensure that the animal from which the sample has been taken can be identified; and
(iii) arrange for the sample to be delivered to an approved testing laboratory,
and failure to do so is an offence.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/177/schedule/2/paragraph/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-scotland-regulations-2010/schedule-2/paragraph-9
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