Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2000
| Jurisdiction | Wales |
| Citation | SI 2000/3387 |
| Year | 2000 |
2000 No. 3387 (W. 224)
FOOD, WALES
The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2000
Made 29th December 2000
Coming into force 1st January 2001
The National Assembly for Wales, being designated1for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19722in relation to the common agricultural policy, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 2(2) and by sections 16(1)(a), (b), (c), (d) and (f), (2)(a) and (3), 17(1), 19(1)(a), 26 and 48(1) of and paragraphs 2(1), 3(1), 5 and 6(1)(a) of Schedule 1 to the Food Safety Act 19903and now vested in the National Assembly for Wales4, having had regard in accordance with section 48(4A) of that Act to relevant advice given by the Food Standards Agency and after consultation in accordance with section 48(4) and (4B) of that Act, makes the following Regulations:
Title, commencement and application
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2000.
(2) These Regulations apply to Wales only and come into force on 1st January 2001.
Amendments to the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997
2.—(1) In relation to Wales, the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997 5are amended in accordance with paragraph (2) of this regulation.
(2) The following paragraph is substituted for paragraph (1) of regulation 4 (specified bovine material) —
“1 In these Regulations, “specified bovine material” means —
(a) the intestines from the duodenum to the rectum of any bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died elsewhere than in Australia or New Zealand;
(b) the following material derived from a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom or Portugal at an age greater than 6 months —
(i) the head (excluding the tongue but including the brain, eyes, trigeminal ganglia and tonsils);
(ii) the thymus;
(iii) the spleen; and
(iv) the spinal cord;
(c) in relation to a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died at an age greater than 30 months, other than one which was accompanied at the time of slaughter by a slaughter certificate issued under the Beef Assurance Scheme as described in Schedule 1 to the Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) (No. 2) Regulations 19966), the vertebral column, including dorsal root ganglia; and
(d) the following material derived from a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died at an age greater than 12 months elsewhere than in the United Kingdom, Portugal, Australia or New Zealand—
(i) the skull (including the brains and eyes);
(ii) the tonsils; and
(iii) the spinal cord.”.
Amendment of the Specified Risk Material Order 1997
3.—(1) In relation to Wales, the Specified Risk Material Order 1997 7shall be amended in accordance with paragraph 2 of this Regulation.
(2) The following paragraph shall be substituted for pararaph (1) of article 4 (specified bovine material) —
“1 In this Order, “specified bovine material” means —
(a) the intestines from the duodenum to the rectum of any bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died elsewhere than in Australia or New Zealand;
(b) the following material derived from a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom or Portugal at an age greater than 6 months —
(i) the head (excluding the tongue but including the brain, eyes, trigeminal ganglia and tonsils);
(ii) the thymus;
(iii) the spleen...
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