The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1992

Made: 30th January 1992

Laid before Parliament: 17th February 1992

Coming in to force: 9th March 1992

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 4(1), 16(1)(a), 48(1) of and paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 1 to, the Food Safety Act 1990[^f00001] and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after consultation in accordance with section 48(4) of the said Act with such organisations as appear to him to be substantially affected by these Regulations, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citations, extent and commencement

1

These Regulations, which may be cited as the Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1992, shall extend to Scotland only, and shall come into force on 9th March 1992.

Interpretation

2

In these Regulations the expression “the principal Regulations” means the Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Scotland) Regulations 1990[^f00002] and references in these Regulations to a numbered regulation shall be construed as a reference to the regulation bearing that number in the principal regulations.

Amendment of the principal Regulations

3

The principal Regulations shall be amended in accordance with regulation 4.

4

• (1) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—

• (a) after the definition of “the Act” there shall be inserted the following definition:—

• “animal feeding stuffs” includes pet food;

• (b) in the definition of “processor” the words from and including “and also includes a waste food processor” to the end of that definition shall be deleted.

• (2) For regulation 4 (prohibition of sale) there shall be substituted the following regulation:—

(4) No person shall— (a) sell for human consumption; or (b) use in the preparation of food for sale for human consumption, any specified bovine offal or any material derived wholly or partly from it.

• (3) Sub-paragraph (b), and the reference to that sub-paragraph in sub-paragraph (c), of regulation 11(1) shall be deleted.

• (4) Sub-paragraph (b), and the reference to that sub-paragraph in sub-paragraph (c), of regulation 12(1) shall be deleted.

• (5) At the end of regulation 12(2) (exemption from requirement to sterilise specified bovine offal) there shall be inserted the words “or to the premises of a processor or to the premises of a person for preparation or storage before further removal to the premises of a processor”.

• (6) After regulation 13 (requirement to sterilise or stain skulls containing brains) there shall be inserted the following regulations:—

(13A) No person shall remove any meat for human consumption from the head of a bovine animal after the skull has been opened or the brain has been removed from that head. (13B) No person shall remove the brain from the head of a bovine animal in a slaughterhouse or specialist boning plant except in an area in the slaughterhouse or specialist boning plant (as the case may be) which is kept free at all times from any food intended for human consumption.

• (7) In regulation 15(c) the words from “the premises” to the words “products or to” inclusive shall be deleted.

Signed

Strathclyde — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 30th January 1992

Explanatory note

(This not is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Bovine Offal (Prohbitions) (Scotland )Regulations 1990, as follows:—

• The Regujlations— insert a definition of “animal feeding stuffs” and amend the definition of “processor” to exclude a waste food processor (regulation 4(1)); extend the prohibition on the sale of specified bovine offal for human consumption to include any material derived wholly or partly from it (regulation 4(2) remove the exemption from requirements to stain or sterilise specified bovine offal previously given in respect of the premises of a pharmaceutical manufacturer for the manufacture of pharmaceutical products (regulations 4(3), (4) and (7)); include provision permitting the stained head of a bovine animal from which the brain has not been removed to be moved to the premises of a processor or to the premises of a person for preparation or storage before further removal to the premises of a processor (regulation 4(5))); prohibit the removal of any meat for human consumption from the head of a bovine animal after the brain has been removed from the head or skull opened (regulation 4(6); and prohibit the removal of the brain from the head of a bovine animal in a slaughterhouse or specialist boning plant except in an area there which is kept free at all times from any food intended for human consumption (regulation 4(6)). remove the provision which allowed remval of any specified bovine offal to the premises of a pharmaceutical manufacturer (regulation 4(7)).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1990 c. 16.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1990/112, amended by S.I. 1990/2625.