The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994

Made: 27th September 1994

Laid before Parliament: 12th October 1994

Coming into force: 2nd November 1994

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

Citation and commencement

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These Regulations may be cited as the Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on 2nd November 1994.

Amendment of the Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Scotland) Regulations 1990

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• (1) The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Scotland) Regulations 1990[^f00002] shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

• (2) In regulation 2(1), for the definition of “specified bovine offal” there shall be substituted the following:—

• “specified bovine offal” means the following parts of a bovine animal:— the brain, spinal cord, spleen, thymus, tonsils and intestines of an animal, more than six months of age, which has died or been slaughtered in the United Kingdom; the thymus and intestines of an animal, two months or over but not more than six months of age, which has died or been slaughtered in the United Kingdom; the thymus and intestines of an animal, under two months of age, which has been slaughtered in the United Kingdom; and which no longer form part of the carcase of an animal;

• (3) Paragraph (b) of regulation 3 shall be deleted.

Signed

Hector Monro — Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Scottish Office — 27th September 1994

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Scotland) Regulations 1990 (“the principal Regulations”).

The controls under the principal Regulations applied to the brain, spinal cord, spleen, thymus, tonsils and intestines of any bovine animal slaughtered in the United Kingdom and which was over six months old at the time of such slaughter.

The Regulations amend the principal Regulations so as to extend the controls on specified bovine offal (defined in the Regulations) to include the thymus and intestines of all bovine animals, except those of animals under two months of age which have died (rather than have been slaughtered) (regulation 2(2) and (3)).

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1990 c. 16; “the Ministers” is defined in section 4(1) of the Act.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1990/112; amended by S.I. 1990/2625 and 1992/158.