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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies-wales-regulations-2018/schedule-7/paragraph-13",
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  "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/7/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards Agency",
  "text": "(1) If the Food Standards Agency is satisfied that the provisions of Annex V and this Schedule will be complied with, the Agency may authorise a cutting plant to—\n(a) remove those parts of the vertebral column of bovine animals that are specified risk material; or\n(b) remove the spinal cord from ovine and caprine animals aged over 12 months at slaughter, or that have a permanent incisor erupted through the gum; or\n(c) harvest the head meat from bovine animals in accordance with point 9 of Annex V.\n(2) The procedures in regulations 7, 9, 10 and 11 apply, but all references to the Welsh Ministers must be construed as references to the Food Standards Agency.",
  "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/7/paragraph/13",
    "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."
}