Animal By-Products (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998
These Regulations amend the Animal By-Products Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1993 (“the 1993 Regulations”) which implement Council Directive 90/667/EEC (O.J. No. L363, 27.12.90, p. 51) laying down the veterinary rules for the disposal and processing of animal waste, for its placing on the market and for the prevention of pathogens in feedstuffs of animal or fish origin and amending Directive 90/425/EEC (O.J. No. L224, 18.8.90, p. 29) as follows—regulation 2 (interpretation) is amended by excluding from the definition of “animal by-product” meat denatured at a knacker’s yard for use as food for animals whose flesh is not intended for human consumption and adding a provision enabling a notice or licence under the Regulations to be amended, suspended or revoked (regulation 3);regulation 3(1) (scope) is amended by providing that the 1993 Regulations shall not apply to specified bovine material as defined in the Specified Risk Material Order (Northern Ireland) 1997 (regulation 4);regulations 4 and 5 (restriction on disposal of animal by-products) are replaced with new regulations which—require that disposal be effected without undue delay;specify the circumstances in which animal by-products are to be buried or burnt instead of being rendered in approved premises or incinerated in an incinerator;limit the exemption providing for the use of animal by-products referred to in paragraphs (a), (b) and (e) of Part I of Schedule 1 and in Part II of Schedule 1 to the 1993 Regulations at a knacker’s yard or in feeding zoo, circus or fur animals, recognised packs of hounds or maggots farmed for fishing bait, to by-products derived from animals which were not slaughtered as a result of the presence or suspected presence of a notifiable disease;require the occupier of a knacker’s yard to ensure that any animal by-product is cooked or denatured without delay and distributed locally for feeding animals not intended for human consumption or disposed of without delay in accordance with new regulation 4 (regulation 5);regulation 10(1) (powers of authorised officers) is amended by providing that the powers of entry, inspection, etc, conferred by that regulation may be exercised for the purpose of ascertaining whether the provisions of any notice served under, or the conditions of any licence or approval granted in accordance with, the 1993 Regulations have been or are being complied with (regulation 6);regulation 11 (offences) is amended in consequence of the replacement of regulation 5 (regulation 7); andSchedule 4 (requirements to be met where animal by-products are rendered) is amended—by expanding paragraph 6(ii) of Section B of Part I (which refers to the rendering of animal by-products using any of the systems of heat treatment described in the Commission Decision 92/562/EEC) so that it includes—a reference to the amendment to Decision 92/562/EEC made in respect of aquatic animals by the Decision of the Council of the European Union adjusting the instruments concerning the accession of new Member States to the European Union; anda reference to the provisions of Commission Decision 94/382/EEC as amended by Commission Decision 95/29/EEC (which relate to the rendering of animal by-products of ruminant origin); andby adding to the hygiene requirements to be met where animal by-products described in Part II of Schedule 1 to the 1993 Regulations are rendered, specific requirements applying to by-products of ruminant origin similar to the requirements relating to by-products described in Part I of Schedule 1 to the 1993 Regulations (regulation 8).