Statutory Instrument 2000 No. 2659 (W. 172 )

The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2000

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" "specified risk material" means  - 
(a) specified bovine material;

(b) specified sheep or goat material;

(c) any part of the animal remaining attached to specified bovine material or specified sheep or goat material after dissection of the carcase;

(d) any animal material which comes into contact with specified bovine material or specified sheep or goat material after it has been removed from the carcase; and

(e) specified solid waste;".

    (4) In paragraph (1) of regulation 3 (specified sheep or goat material) the phrase "class I" is revoked.

    (5) Paragraph (2) of regulation 3 is revoked.

    (6) In paragraph (3) of regulation 3  - 

(a) the phrase "class II" is revoked; and

(b) the words "or incinerated" are inserted between "rendered" and "whole".

    (7) The following paragraph is substituted for paragraphs (1) and (2) of regulation 4 (specified bovine material)  - 

    " (1) In these Regulations, "specified bovine material" means  - 


(a) 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 brains, eyes, trigeminal ganglia and tonsils),

(ii) the thymus,

(iii) the spleen,

(iv) the intestines from the duodenum to the rectum, and

(v) the spinal cord;



(b) in relation to a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom or Portugal at an age greater than 30 months (other than a bovine animal 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 1996[4]), the vertebral column (including dorsal root ganglia); and

(c) the following material derived from a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died outside the United Kingdom or Portugal (other than in Australia or New Zealand) at an age greater than 12 months  - 



(i) the skull (including the brains and eyes),

(ii) the tonsils,

(iii) the spinal cord, and

(iv) the ileum.".

    (8) The following paragraph is substituted for paragraph (3) of regulation 4  - 

    " (3) Whole carcases of bovine animals are specified bovine material if they are removed to be rendered or incinerated whole from the place where they were slaughtered or died."

    (9) The following paragraph is added to regulation 4  - 

    " (4) In paragraph (1) above, the reference to Portugal does not include a reference to the Autonomous Region of the Azores."

    (10) Regulation 12 (rendering whole carcases) is revoked.

    (11) In paragraph (9)(b)(ii) of regulation 24 (approved rendering plants) the words "the specified risk material referred to in paragraph (17) below" are substituted for the phrase "class II specified risk material".

    (12) The following paragraph is added to regulation 24  - 

    " (17) The specified risk material is  - 


(a) the head of a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom at an age greater than 6 months except  - 


(i) the skull (including the brains and eyes), and

(ii) the tongue; and



(b) the material referred to in paragraphs (c) and (d) of the definition of that phrase.".

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998[5]

The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales

28th September 2000

[2] Functions of "the Ministers" under the Food Safety Act 1990, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, were transferred to the National Assembly for Wales by the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).back

[3] S.I. 1997/2965, amended in relation to the whole of Great Britain by S.I. 1998/2405 (itself amended by S.I. 1998/2431) and S.I. 1999/539.back

[4] S.I. 1996/2097, amended by S.I. 1996/2522.back

[5] 1998 c. 38.back