The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Made: 22nd December 2008

Coming into operation: 1st January 2009

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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

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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 — AMBULATORY REFERENCES

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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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Approval of laboratories

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Slaughter of bovine animals

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Retention of products and disposal

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Compensation

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PART II — CONTENTS OF A 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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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 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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Confirmation of BSE in sheep or goats

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Confirmation of atypical scrapie 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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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 — 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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Retention of products and disposal

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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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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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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 12(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 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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Appointment of Food Standards Agency inspectors

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Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 22nd December 2008.

Liam McKibben — 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. 202/2008 (O.J. No. L 60, 5.3.2008, p.17)

[^f00004]: S.R. 1999 No. 324 as amended by S.R. 2001 No. 292 and S.R. 2004 No. 420

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

[^f00007]: O.J. No. L 147, 31.5.2001, p.1, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 956/2008 (O.J. No. L 260, 30.9. 2008, p.8)

[^f00008]: O.J. No. L 172, 30.6.2007, p.84

[^f00009]: O.J. No. L 273, 10.10.2002, p.1, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 523/2008 (O.J. No. L 153, 12.6.2008, p.23)

[^f00010]: O.J. No. L 117, 13.5.2003, p.14

[^f00011]: O.J. No. L 162, 30.4.2004, p.62, as amended by Regulation (EC) No. 1877/2006 (O.J. No. L 360, 19.12.2006, p.133)

[^f00012]: O.J. No. L 19, 21.1.2005, p.27, as last amended by Regulation (EC) No. 1576/2007 (O.J. No. L 340, 22.12.07, p.89)

[^f00013]: 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. L204, 4.8.2007, p.26), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No.1243/2007 (O.J. No. L 281, 25.10.2007, p.8)

[^f00014]: 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)

[^f00015]: O.J. No. L 271, 15.10.2005, p.17