The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

Made: 6th December 2010

Coming into operation: 31st December 2010

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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 of official documents

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Revocations of official documents

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Appeals

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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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Amendment of the Animal By-Products (Identification) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999

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Consequential amendments

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Revocations

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SCHEDULE 1 — AMBULATORY REFERENCES

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SCHEDULE 2 — TSE MONITORING

PART I — MONITORING FOR TSE

Notification of the body of a goat for the purpose of monitoring under Article 6 of the EU TSE Regulation

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Arrangements in respect of the body of a bovine animal for the purpose of monitoring under Article 6 of the EU TSE Regulation

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Persons collecting and delivering the body of a bovine animal

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Brain stem sampling of the body of a bovine animal (Approved TSE sampling sites)

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Destruction without sampling

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Retention and disposal of the body of a bovine animal pending test results

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Remote Areas

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Consignment and slaughter of an over-age bovine animal

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Brain stem sampling of bovine animals (slaughterhouses)

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Brain stem sampling of the body of a bovine animal (other places of slaughter)

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Approval of laboratories

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Approved TSE sampling sites

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Slaughter of bovine animals

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Retention of products and disposal

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TSE sampling of sheep, goats and deer

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Compensation

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PART II — CONTENTS OF A REQUIRED METHOD OF OPERATION (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 brain stem sampling

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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 TSE

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Action where TSE 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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When compensation is payable

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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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Returns

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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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Use of milk or milk products following confirmation of classical scrapie

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Inability to exclude BSE in sheep or goats

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Confirmation of atypical scrapie in sheep or goats

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Derogation

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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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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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Compensation for milk or milk products compulsorily destroyed in accordance with paragraph 9

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SCHEDULE 5 — CONTROL AND ERADICATION OF TSE IN ANIMALS OTHER THAN BOVINE, OVINE OR CAPRINE ANIMALS

Notification

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Restriction of a notified animal

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Slaughter of a suspect animal

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Compensation for an animal that is not bovine, ovine or caprine slaughtered as a suspect animal

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SCHEDULE 6 — 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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Fishmeal for feeding to unweaned, 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 7 — SPECIFIED RISK MATERIAL, MECHANICALLY SEPARATED MEAT AND SLAUGHTERING TECHNIQUES

Appointment of the Food Standards Agency as the competent authority

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Training

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Mechanically separated 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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Bovine animals, sheep and goats in other places of slaughter

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

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Meat from a member State

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Staining and disposal of specified risk material

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Security of specified risk material

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Prohibition on the sale, supply or possession for sale or supply of specified risk material for human consumption

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SCHEDULE 8 — RESTRICTIONS ON PLACING ON THE MARKET AND EXPORT

Placing on the market or export to third countries of bovine products

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Placing on the market or export to third countries of bovine animals

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Export to a member State of heads and un-split carcases

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Export to third countries of products containing specified risk material

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Further offences relating to placing on the market and export

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Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 6th December 2010.

C. McMaster — A senior officer of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1972 c.68. Paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 was inserted by section 28 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51)

[^f00002]: S.I. 1999/2027

[^f00003]: O.J. No. L 31, 1.2.2002, p.1, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 596/2009 (O.J. No. L 188, 18.7.2009, p.14)

[^f00004]: S.R. 1999 No. 324 as amended by S.R. 2004 No. 420

[^f00005]: O.J. No. L 155, 15.6.2007, p. 74

[^f00006]: Established by the Food Standards Act 1999 c. 28

[^f00007]: O.J. No L 165, 30.4.2004, p 1. The revised text of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 is now set out in a Corrigendum (OJ No L 191, 28.5.2004, p 1), which should be read with a further Corrigendum (OJ No L 204, 4.8.2007, p 29). Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 was last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1029/2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council to update a reference to certain European standards (OJ No L 278, 21.10.2008, p. 6)

[^f00008]: O.J. No. L 147, 31.5.2001, p.1, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 220/2009 (O.J. No. L 87, 31.3.2009, p.155)

[^f00009]: O.J. No. L 172, 30.6.2007, p.84, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 830/2009 (O.J. No. L 295, 12.11.2009, p.11)

[^f00010]: O.J. No. L 256, 29.9.2009, p. 35, as last amended by Commission Decision 2010/66/EU (O.J. No. L 35, 6.2.2010, p. 21 )

[^f00015]: O.J. No. L 139, 30.04.2004, p.55. The revised text of Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004 is now set out in a Corrigendum (O.J. No. L 226, 25.6.2004, p.22) which should be read with a further Corrigendum (O.J. No. L 204, 4.8.2007, p.26). Regulation (EC) No. 853/2004 is last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 558/2010 (O.J. No. L 159, 25.6.2010, p. 18)

[^f00016]: O.J. No. L 157, 30.4.2004, p.33. The revised text of Directive 2004/41/EC is now set out in a Corrigendum (O.J. No. L 195, 2.6.2004, p.12)

[^f00017]: O.J. No. L 271, 15.10.2005, p.17

[^f00018]: O.J. No. L 338, 22.12.2005, p.27, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1250/2008 of 12 December 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 2074/2005 as regards certification requirements for import of fishery products, live bivalve molluscs, echinoderms, tunicates and marine gastropods intended for human consumption (O.J. No. L 337, 16.12.2008, p.31)

[^f00019]: O.J. No. L 338, 22.12.2005, p.83, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1162/2009 of 30 November 2009 laying down transitional measures for the implementation of Regulations (EC) No. 853/2004, (EC) No. 854/2004 and (EC) No. 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (O.J. No. L 314, 1.12.2009, p.10)

[^f00020]: O.J. No. L 165 , 30.4.2004, p.1. The revised text of Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004 is now set out in a Corrigendum (O.J. No. L 191, 28.5.2004, p.1), which should be read with a further Corrigendum (O.J. No. L 204, 4.8.2007, p29). Regulation (EC) No. 882/2004 was last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1162/2009 of 30 November 2009 laying down transitional measures for the implementation of Regulations (EC) No. 853/2004, (EC) No. 854/2004 and (EC) No. 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council (O.J. No. L 314, 1.12.2009, p.10)

[^f00021]: 1954 c.33 (N.I.)

[^f00022]: S.R. 1999 No. 418 as last amended by S.R. 2006 No. 3

[^f00023]: S.R. 2005 No.545 as last amended by S.R. 2009 No.348

[^f00024]: S.R. 2009 No.427.

[^f00025]: S.R. 2008 No.508 as amended by S.R. 2009 No. 347

[^f00026]: S.R. 2009 No.347

[^f00028]: ISBN 978-92-1-139131-2

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[^f00031]: OJ No L 204, 11.8.2000, p.1, last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1791/2006 (OJ No L363, 20.12.2006, p.1).

[^f00032]: Colour Index is published by the Society of Dyers and Colourists at Perkin House, 82 Grattan Road, Bradford, West Yorkshire BD1 2JB

[^f00033]: O.J. No. L155,15.6.2007, p.74

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