The Specified Risk Material (Inspection Charges) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999
These Regulations enable the Department to levy a charge on the occupiers or the owners and occupiers of slaughterhouses and cutting premises at which specified risk material (“SRM”) is removed from the carcases of cattle, sheep and goats (as required by the Specified Risk Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997, S.R. 1997 No. 552). This charge covers the costs incurred by the Department in undertaking the inspections and controls permitted by regulations 9(9) and 15(4) of those Regulations (“the SRM inspections”).