{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-wales-regulations-2018/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-wales-regulations-2018/schedule-2/paragraph-4.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2018/968",
  "legislation_title": "The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Wales) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-wales-regulations-2018",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Brain stem sampling of bovine animals (slaughterhouses)",
  "text": "(1) The occupier of a slaughterhouse or other place of slaughter in which a bovine animal to which sub-paragraph (2) applies is slaughtered or processed must—\n(a) take, or make arrangements for a sample to be taken, comprising the brain stem for testing in accordance with Chapter C of Annex X;\n(b) ensure that the animal (or all parts of it) 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) This sub-paragraph applies to a bovine animal that—\n(a) was born in a country that is not listed in the Annex to Commission Decision 2009/719/EC and is covered by point 2 of Chapter A of Annex III; or\n(b) is covered by point (b) of paragraph 1 of Article 2 of Commission Decision 2009/719/EC.\n(3) The Welsh Ministers may serve a notice on the occupier of a slaughterhouse or other place of slaughter requiring them to take a sample and send it for testing as required by sub-paragraph (1) from any bovine animal slaughtered there.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2018/968/schedule/2/paragraph/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:22:09.544315+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."
}