# The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Wales) Regulations 2006 (revoked)

W.S.I. 2006/1226 · made 2 May 2006 · revised to 31 December 2008

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PDFs: Printed copy https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-wales-regulations-2006-revoked/pdf/wsi_20061226_mi.pdf

## Introductory text

ANIMALs, wales
ANIMAL HEALTH
Made 2 May 2006
Coming into force 3 May 2006
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## Part 1: General provisions

## 1 Title, application and commencement

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## 2 Interpretation

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## 3 Appointment of competent authority

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## 4 Exception for research

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## Part 2: Introduction of Schedules

## 5 TSE monitoring

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## 6 Control and eradication of TSE in bovine animals

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## 7 Control and eradication of TSE in sheep and goats

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## 8 Feedingstuffs

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## 9 Specified risk material, mechanically recovered meat and slaughtering techniques and restrictions on dispatch to other member states and to third countries

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## Part 3: Administration and enforcement

## 10 Approvals, authorisations, licences and registrations

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## 11 Occupier's duty

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## 12 Suspension and amendment

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## 13 Revocations of approvals, etc.

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## 14 Appeals procedure

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## 15 Valuations

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## 16 Appointment of inspectors

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## 17 Powers of entry

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## 18 Powers of inspectors

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## 19 Notices

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## 20 Notices restricting movement

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## 21 Obstruction

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## 22 Penalties

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## 23 Offences by bodies corporate

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## 24 Enforcement

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## 25 Amendment of the TSE (Wales) Regulations 2002

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## 26 Revocations

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## Signature

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## Schedule 1 Instruments relevant to Community TSE Regulation

The Community TSE Regulation has been amended by, and must be read with–

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## Schedule 2: TSE monitoring

### Part 1: Monitoring for TSE

## 1 Notifications for the purposes of monitoring under Article 6 of the Community TSE Regulation

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## 2 Consignment and slaughter of an over-age bovine animal

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## 3 Brain stem sampling of bovine animals

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## 4 Slaughter of bovine animals over 30 months of age

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## 5 Retention of products and disposal

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## 6 Compensation

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### Part 2: Contents of an RMOP

## 7 Animal identification and separation

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## 8 Brain stem sampling

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## 9 Correlation of sample to carcase and all other parts of the body

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## 10 Retention of carcases

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## 11 Retention of parts of the body

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## 12 Disposal before receipt of the result

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## 13 Other measures following sampling

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## 14 Removal of vertebral column

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## Schedule 3: Control and eradication of TSE in bovine animals

## 1 Control and eradication of TSE - notification

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## 2 Restriction of a notified animal

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## 3 Slaughter of a suspect animal

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## 4 Identification and restriction of offspring and cohorts

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## 5 Action following confirmation

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## 6 Death while under restriction

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## 7 Placing on the market of bovine progeny

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## Schedule 4: Control and eradication of TSE in sheep and goats

## 1 Notification of TSE

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## 2 Restriction of a notified animal

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## 3 Slaughter of a suspect animal

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## 4 Movement restrictions

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## 5 Action where TSE is not confirmed

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## 6 Confirmation of TSE in sheep

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## 7 Confirmation of TSE in goats

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## 8 Confirmation of BSE in sheep or goats

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## 9 Time for appeals

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## 10 Killing and destruction following confirmation

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## 11 Infected animals from another holding

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## 12 Common grazing

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## 13 Multiple flocks on a holding

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## 14 Subsequent occupiers

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## 15 Introduction of animals on to a holding

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## 16 Use of ovine germinal products

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## 17 Movement of animals from a holding

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## 18 Time of movement restrictions

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## 19 Death while under restriction

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## 20 Placing on the market of progeny of BSE affected sheep and goats

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## 21 Notification while the holding is under restriction

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## 22 Derogations

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## Schedule 5: Feedingstuffs

### Part 1: Restrictions on feeding proteins to animals

## 1 Prohibition on feeding animal protein to ruminants

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## 2 Prohibition on feeding animal protein to non-ruminants

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## 3 Exceptions

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## 4 Movement prohibitions and restrictions of animals

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## 5 Slaughter of animals

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## 6 Compensation

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## 7 Slaughter or sale for human consumption

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### Part 2: Production of protein and feedingstuffs

## 8 Fishmeal for feeding to non-ruminant farmed animals

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## 9 Offences relating to fishmeal and feedingstuffs containing fishmeal

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## 10 Feedingstuffs containing dicalcium phosphate or tricalcium phosphate for feeding to non-ruminant animals

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## 11 Offences relating to feedingstuffs containing dicalcium phosphate or tricalcium phosphate for feeding to non-ruminant animals

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## 12 Blood products and blood meal

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## 13 Offences relating to feedingstuffs containing blood products or blood meal

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## 14 Change in use of equipment

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## 15 Conditions applying to the storage and transport of bulk quantities of protein products and feedingstuffs containing such proteins

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## 16 Conditions applying to the manufacture and transport of petfood or feedingstuffs

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## 17 Export of processed animal protein to third countries

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## 18 Fertilisers

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## 19 Record keeping for transport etc. of reject petfood

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## 20 Cross-contamination of materials originating from premises where processed animal proteins (except fishmeal) are in use

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## Schedule 6: Specified risk material, mechanically separated meat and slaughtering techniques

## 1 Appointment of the Food Standards Agency as the competent authority

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## 2 Local authorities' duties with regards to butcher shops

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## 3 Training

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## 4 Mechanically separated meat

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## 5 Pithing

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## 6 Tongue harvesting

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## 7 Head meat harvesting

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## 8 Removal of specified risk material

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## 9 Bovine animals in a slaughterhouse

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## 10 Sheep and goats in a slaughterhouse

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## 11 Young lamb and goat stamps

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## 12 Removal of spinal cord from sheep and goats

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## 13 Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards Agency

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## 14 Authorisation and registration of butcher shops by local authorities

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## 15 Removal of specified risk material at a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 13(1)

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## 16 Removal of bovine vertebral column that is specified risk material at a cutting plant not authorised under paragraph 13(1)(a)

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## 17 Removal of bovine vertebral column that is specified risk material at a butcher shop authorised and registered under paragraph 14

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## 18 Meat from another member state

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## 19 Staining and disposal of specified risk material

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## 20 Scheme animals

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## 21 Security of specified risk material

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## 22 Prohibition on the supply of specified risk material for human consumption

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## 23 Definitions of Community legislation

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## Schedule 7: Restrictions on dispatch to other member States and to third countries

## 1 Restrictions on dispatch to other member States and to third countries

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## 2 Exports to third countries

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## Schedule 8 Revocations

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## Explanatory note

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2006/1226 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-wales-regulations-2006-revoked
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