Statutory Instruments
2000 No. 3377
ANIMALS, ENGLAND
ANIMAL HEALTH
The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) (No. 3) Order 2000
Made
29th December 2000
Laid before Parliament
29th December 2000
Coming into force
19th January 2001
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 1, 10(1)(a) and (c) and (2), 11, 29(2)(b), 35(1), 76(3) and 83(2) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Animal Health Act 1981( 1 ), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
Title, extent and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as the Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) (No. 3) Order 2000, shall extend to England and shall come into force on 19th January 2001.
Amendment of the Specified Risk Material Order 1997
2. —(1) In so far as it extends to England, the Specified Risk Material Order 1997( 2 ) shall be amended in accordance with paragraph (2).
(2) The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (1) or 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 entire head (excluding the tongue but including the brain, eyes, trigeminal ganglia and tonsils),
(ii) the thymus,
(iii) the spleen,
(iv) the spinal cord; and
(v) (in relation to such an animal which was slaughtered or has died 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 ( 3 ) ), the vertebral column, including dorsal root ganglia; and
(c) 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. ” .
Revocation of the Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Order 2000
3. The Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Order 2000( 4 ) shall be revoked.
Elliot Morley
Parliamentary Secretary Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
29th December 2000
1981 c. 22 ; see section 86(1) for definitions of “the Minister” and “the Ministers”. Functions of “the Ministers”, so far as exercisable in relation to England, were transferred to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by the Transfer of Functions (Agriculture and Food) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3141 ).
S.I. 1996/2097 , as amended by S.I. 1996/2522 and S.I. 2000/656 .
S.I. 2000/3234 .