
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Specified Bovine Material (Treatment and Disposal) (No. 3) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 8th January 1997.
2 
In regulation 2(1) of the Specified Bovine Material (Treatment and Disposal) (No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 for the definition of “scheme animal” there shall be substituted the following definition—“
 “scheme animal” means a bovine animal—
(a) which has been slaughtered pursuant to the purchase, slaughter and disposal scheme introduced under Commission Regulation (EC) No. 716/96 adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market in the United Kingdom; or
(b) which, being an animal which has been exposed to the infection of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, the Department has caused to be slaughtered in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 10A of Part I of Schedule 2 to the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture on 18th December 1996.
P. T. Toal
Assistant Secretary
