The Bovine Animals (Enforcement of Community Purchase Scheme) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996
These Regulations make provision for the enforcement of certain of the requirements of Commission Regulation (EC) No. 716/96, adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market in the United Kingdom. That Regulation authorises the United Kingdom to introduce a scheme for the purchase of any bovine animal aged over 30 months which does not exhibit any clinical sign of BSE and which was, during a period of at least three months prior to its sale, present on a holding located on United Kingdom territory. Various requirements are specified as to the slaughter, treatment and disposal of animals subject to that scheme.