Statutory Instrument 1992 No. 3303

Animal By-Products Order 1992

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1992 No. 3303

ANIMALS
ANIMAL HEALTH

Animal By-Products Order 1992

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 1, 8(1) and 87(2), (3) and (5)(a) of the Animal Health Act 1981^[1] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Title and commencement
    1.    This Order may be cited as the Animal By-Products Order 1992 and shall come into force on 1st January 1993.

Extension of definitions of "Animals" and "Poultry"
    2.    For the purposes of the Act in its application to this Order—
 (a) the definition of "animals" in section 87(1) of the Act is hereby extended so as to comprise—
 (i) any kind of mammal except man,
 (ii) any kind of four-footed beast which is not a mammal and
 (iii) fish, and
 (b) the definition of "poultry" in section 87(4) of the Act is hereby extended so as to comprise quails.

Interpretation
    3.—(1)  In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires—
"the Act" means the Animal Health Act 1981;
"animal" includes poultry;
"animal by-product" means any carcase or part of any animal or product of animal origin not intended for direct human consumption but does not include animal excreta or catering waste or meat cooked at a knacker's yard for use as food for animals whose flesh is not intended for human consumption;
"approved premises" means premises approved by the Minister under article 8;
"burial" means interment at a depth beyond the reach of carnivorous animals;
"knacker's yard" means any premises used in connection with the business of slaughtering, flaying or cutting up animals the flesh of which is not intended for human consumption;
"premises" includes land;
"rendering" means subjecting animal by-products at a rendering, fishmeal or other plant to any of the systems of treatment or procedures mentioned in Schedule 4;
"scientific purposes" means diagnostic, educational or research purposes;
"technical or pharmaceutical products" means products intended for purposes other than human food or animal feedingstuffs.


    (2)  Any reference in this Order to a numbered article or Schedule is a reference to the article or Schedule bearing that number in this Order.

Scope
    4.—(1)  The provisions of this Order shall not apply to waste food defined in, and required to be processed under, the provisions of the Diseases of Animals (Waste Food) Order 1973^[2]

    (2)  The provisions of this Order shall not apply to hides, skins, hooves, feathers, wool, horns, hair, blood and similar products from animals slaughtered in the normal way which are not used in the manufacture of feedingstuffs but shall apply to such products when originating from animals which (during veterinary inspection at the time of slaughter) show signs of any disease communicable through that product to man or animals.

[1] 1981 c. 22; see section 86(1)(c) for a definition of Ministers back

[2] S.I. 1973/1936, amended by SI. 1987/232. back

Explanatory Note