Paragraph 5 Approval of testing laboratories

England and Wales

(1)

The Welsh Ministers must on application approve laboratories to test samples for the purposes of Chapter C of Annex X if satisfied that the laboratory—

(a)

will carry out the testing in accordance with Chapter C of that Annex;

(b)

has adequate quality control procedures; and

(c)

has adequate procedures to ensure the correct identification of the samples and notification of the test results to the consigning slaughterhouse and to the Welsh Ministers.

(2)

For the purposes of this Schedule, an “approved testing laboratory” (“labordy profi a gymeradwywyd”) means—

(a)

a laboratory approved under this paragraph;

(b)

a laboratory approved under corresponding legislation elsewhere in the United Kingdom;

F1(c)

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F2(d)

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 2 para. 5(2)(c) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animal By-Products and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/94), regs. 1(2), 3(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)
F2: Sch. 2 para. 5(2)(d) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Animal By-Products and Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/94), regs. 1(2), 3(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)