The Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) Regulations 1996
These Regulations replace the provisions of the Beef (Emergency Control) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/961), as amended, by creating an offence of selling for human consumption meat derived from bovine animals slaughtered on or after 29th March 1996 in which, at the time of slaughter, there were more than two permanent incisors erupted, unless it can be shown by reference to certain documentary evidence that the animal at the time of slaughter was no more than two years and six months old.