{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-scotland-regulations-2010/schedule-7/paragraph-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-scotland-regulations-2010/schedule-7/paragraph-13.json",
  "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/7/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Authorisation of cutting plants by Food Standards Scotland",
  "text": "(1) If Food Standards Scotland is satisfied that the provisions of Annex 5 to the EUTSE Regulation and this schedule will be complied with, Food Standards Scotland may authorise a cutting plant to:\n(a) remove those parts of the vertebral column of bovine animals that are specified risk material;\n(b) remove the spinal cord from sheep and goats aged over 12 months at slaughter, or that have a permanent incisor erupted through the gum; and\n(c) harvest the head meat from bovine animals in accordance with point 9 of Annex V.\nif the Agency is satisfied that the provisions of Annex V to the EU TSE Regulation (specified risk material) and this Schedule will be complied with.\n(2) The procedures in regulations 6, 8, 9 and 10 apply, with references to the Scottish Ministers being construed as references to the Food Standards Scotland.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 13(1) substituted (23.5.2019) by The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/118), regs. 1, 9(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in sch. 7 para. 13(2) substituted (1.4.2015) by The Food (Scotland) Act 2015 (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/100), arts. 1(2), 2, sch. para. 26"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 7 para. 13 heading substituted (1.4.2015) by The Food (Scotland) Act 2015 (Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/100), arts. 1(2), 2, sch. para. 26"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/177/schedule/7/paragraph/13",
    "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."
}