Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (No. 2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001
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The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development[1], in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Articles 2(3), 5(1), 19(b), (e), (f), (i) and (k), 24, 29(1) and (2), 32, 44, 46(7A) and 60(1) of the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981[2] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order: Citation and commencement 1. This Order may be cited as the Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (No.2) Order (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 6th November 2001. Amendments to the Specified Risk Material Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 2. - (1) The Specified Risk Material Order (Northern Ireland) 1997[3] shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (8). (2) In paragraph (1) of Article 2 (Interpretation) -
(b) the following definition is inserted at the end -
(3) The following paragraph is inserted at the
end of Article 2 -
(4) In paragraph (1) of Article 3 (Specified
sheep or goat material), the phrase "subject to paragraph (2)," is
inserted before the phrase "specified sheep or goat
material".
(3) The countries are -
(6) For Article 4 there shall be substituted
the following Article -
(b) the following material derived from a bovine animal which was slaughtered or died in the United Kingdom or Portugal when it was aged over 6 months -
(ii) the thymus, (iii) the spleen, (iv) the spinal cord, and (v) subject to paragraph (4), in the case of such an animal which was slaughtered or died when it was aged over 12 months, the vertebral column; and (c) subject to paragraph (3), the following material derived from a
bovine animal which was slaughtered or died elsewhere than in Portugal
or the United Kingdom when it was aged over 12
months -
(ii) the tonsils, (iii) the spinal cord, and (iv) (subject to paragraph (5)) the vertebral column. (2) In each of sub-paragraphs (b) and
(c) of paragraph (1) the reference to Portugal does not include a
reference to the Autonomous Region of the
Azores.
(b) a beef assurance scheme animal, shall not be regarded as specified bovine material for the purpose of
this Order. (7) In Article 6 -
(b) the following paragraph is inserted after paragraph (2) -
(b) not less than 72 hours before he intends to import the carcase, he has given notice of the intended import to the officer of the Department with responsibility for supervision of those premises, except where that officer has agreed with the person required to give such notice that notice of a shorter duration will be accepted, in which case the notice shall be of the agreed duration.". (8) For Schedule 2 (Form of importation
certificate) there shall be substituted the
following - Specified risk materials of bovine, ovine and caprine origin: official declaration
Description and identification of product Number of cuts/boxes/packages Net weight (kg or tonnes) 2. Origin and destination of products Country of origin Premises of origin and approval number (where appropriate) Premises from which the products were despatched to Northern Ireland Premises of destination Means of transport Name and address of consignor Name and address of consignee Declaration *Either This product does not contain and is not derived from specified risk material as defined in Annex XI of Regulation (EC) No.999/2001[6], produced after 31 March 2001, or mechanically recovered meat obtained from the bones of bovine, ovine or caprine animals, produced after 31 March 2001. The animals have not been slaughtered, after 31 March 2001, after stunning by means of a gas injected into the cranial cavity or killed instantaneously by the same method, or slaughtered after laceration, after stunning, of central nervous tissue by means of an elongated rod-shaped instrument introduced into the cranial cavity. *Or This product does not contain and is not derived from bovine, ovine and caprine materials other that those derived from animals born, reared and slaughtered in the following countries: Australia Argentina Botswana Brazil Chile Costa Rica Namibia New Zealand Nicaragua Paraguay Uruguay Singapore and Swaziland *delete one of these as appropriate. Signed Name (in capital letters) and position Ministry/Department Country/State Date "".
(This note is not part of the Order.) This Order makes further amendments to the Specified Risk Material Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 ("the principal Order"). The amendments reflect the provisions of Annex XI to Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001 (O.J. No. L147, 31.5.2001, p.1) of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. That Annex imposed transitional measures with regard to the removal of specified risk material and was inserted into Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001 by Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1326/2001 (O.J. No. L177, 30.6.2001, p. 60). In Article 2 of the principal Order, a definition of vertebral column is added at the end of paragraph (1) and a new paragraph (5) is added (Article 2(2) and (3)). Article 3 of the principal Order (which defines "specified sheep and goat material") is amended to exclude from the scope of the definition material derived from sheep and goats born, continuously reared and slaughtered in certain third countries (Article 2(4) and (5)). Article 4 of the principal Order (which defines "specified bovine material") is substantially revised so that, in particular, material derived from bovine animals born, continuously reared and slaughtered in certain third countries is now outside the scope of the definition (Article 2(6)). Article 6 of the principal Order (which regulates the import of specified risk material) is amended to impose new requirements for the import of carcases of bovine animals containing vertebral column which are specified risk material; and a new form of importation certificate is substituted in Schedule 2 (Article 2(7) and (8)). Notes: [1] Formerly the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland : see S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) Art. 3(4)back [2] S.I. 1981/1115 (N.I. 22) as amended by S.I. 1984/702 (N.I. 2) Art. 17 and S.I. 1994/1891 (N.I. 6) Arts. 19, 22, 23(1), (2) and (3), 24(1) and Schedule as applied by the Zoonoses Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 (S.R. 1997 No. 548)back [3] S.R. 1997 No. 551 as amended by S.R. 2001 No.1back [4] S.R. 1996 No. 404 as amended by S.R. 1996 No. 506, S.R. 2000 No. 78 and S.R. 2001 No.155back [5] S.R. 1997 No. 552 as amended by S.R. 1999 No. 157, S.R. 1999 No. 431, S.R. 2000 No. 295, S.R. 2001 No. 48, S.R. 2001 No. 196 and S.R. 2001 No. 376back [6] O.J. No. L147, 31.5.2001. p.1 as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No.1326/2001 (O.J. No. L177, 30.6.2001, p. 60)back
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