LegalizeThe Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006
Made: 2nd May 2006
Coming into operation: 3rd May 2006
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PART I — GENERAL PROVISIONS
Citation and commencement
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Interpretation
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Appointment of competent authority
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Exception for research
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PART II — INTRODUCTION OF SCHEDULES
The Schedules
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PART III — ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT
Approvals, authorisations, licences and registrations
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Occupier’s duty
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Suspension and amendment
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Revocations of approvals, etc.
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Appeals procedure
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Valuations
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Appointment of inspectors
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Powers of entry
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Powers of inspectors
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Notices
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Notices restricting movement
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Obstruction
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Penalties
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Enforcement
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Revocations
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SCHEDULE 1 — INSTRUMENTS RELEVANT TO COMMUNITY TSE REGULATION
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SCHEDULE 2 — TSE MONITORING
PART I — MONITORING FOR TSE
Notifications for the purposes of monitoring under Article 6 of the Community TSE Regulation
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Consignment and slaughter of an over-age bovine animal
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Brain stem sampling of bovine animals
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Slaughter of bovine animals over 30 months of age
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Retention of products and disposal
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Compensation
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PART II — CONTENTS OF AN RMOP
Animal identification and separation
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Brain stem sampling
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Correlation of sample to carcase and all other parts of the body
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Retention of carcases
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Retention of parts of the body
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Disposal before receipt of the result
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Other measures following sampling
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Removal of vertebral column
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SCHEDULE 3 — CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF TSE IN BOVINE ANIMALS
Control and eradication of TSE - notification
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Restriction of a notified animal
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Slaughter of a suspect animal
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Identification and restriction of offspring and cohorts
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Action following confirmation of BSE
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Action where BSE is not confirmed
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Death while under restriction
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Placing on the market of bovine progeny
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Compensation
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Compensation for a suspect animal
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Compensation for a cohort animal
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Compensation for an offspring animal
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Compensation for Buffalo and Bison
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Assessment of market value
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Definitions
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SCHEDULE 4 — CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF TSE IN SHEEP AND GOATS
Notification of TSE
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Restriction of a notified animal
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Slaughter of a suspect animal
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Movement restrictions
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Action where TSE is not confirmed
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Confirmation of TSE in sheep
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Confirmation of TSE in goats
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Confirmation of BSE in sheep or goats
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Time for appeals
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Killing and destruction following confirmation
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Infected animals from other premises
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Common grazing
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Multiple flocks on any premises
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Subsequent occupiers
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Introduction of an animal onto any premises
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Use of ovine germinal products
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Movement of an animal from any premises
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Time of movement restrictions
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Death while under restriction
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Placing on the market of progeny of a BSE affected sheep or goat
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Notification while any premises are under restriction
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Derogations
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Compensation for a sheep or goat slaughtered as a suspect animal
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Compensation for animals killed or products destroyed following confirmation of TSE
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Valuations
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SCHEDULE 5 — FEEDINGSTUFFS
PART I — RESTRICTIONS ON FEEDING PROTEINS TO ANIMALS
Prohibition on feeding animal protein to ruminants
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Prohibition on feeding animal protein to non-ruminants
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Exceptions
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Movement prohibitions and restrictions of animals
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Slaughter of an animal
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Compensation
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Slaughter or sale for human consumption
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PART II — PRODUCTION OF PROTEIN AND FEEDINGSTUFFS
Fishmeal for feeding to non-ruminant farmed animals
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Offences relating to fishmeal and feedingstuffs containing fishmeal
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Feedingstuffs containing dicalcium phosphate or tricalcium phosphate for feeding to non-ruminant animals
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Offences relating to feedingstuffs containing dicalcium phosphate or tricalcium phosphate for feeding to non-ruminant animals
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Blood products and blood meal
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Offences relating to feedingstuffs containing blood products or blood meal
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Change in use of equipment
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Conditions applying to the storage and transport of bulk quantities of protein products and feedingstuffs containing such proteins
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Conditions applying to the manufacture and transport of feedingstuffs, including petfood
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Export of processed animal protein to third countries
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Fertilisers
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Record keeping for transport etc. of reject petfood
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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
Appointment of the Food Standards Agency as the competent authority
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District council obligations with regards to butcher shops
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Training
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Mechanically recovered meat
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Pithing
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Tongue harvesting
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Head meat harvesting
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Removal of specified risk material
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Bovine animals in a slaughterhouse
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Sheep and goats in a slaughterhouse
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Young lamb and goat stamps
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Removal of spinal cord from sheep and goats
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Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards Agency
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Authorisation and registration of butcher shops by District Councils
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Removal of specified risk material at a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 13(1)
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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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Removal of bovine vertebral column that is specified risk material at a butcher shop authorised and registered under paragraph 14
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Meat from Great Britain or a member State
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Staining and disposal of specified risk material
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Scheme animals
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Security of specified risk material
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Prohibition on the supply of specified risk material for human consumption
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It is an offence to sell or supply—
- (a) any specified risk material, or any food containing specified risk material for human consumption; or
- (b) any specified risk material for use in the preparation of any food for human consumption.
SCHEDULE 7 — RESTRICTIONS ON DISPATCH TO MEMBER STATES AND TO THIRD COUNTRIES
Restrictions on dispatch to member States and to third countries
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Exports to third countries
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SCHEDULE 8 — REVOCATIONS
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