
1 
These Regulations may be cited as the Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into force on 4th October 1996.
2 
The Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) (No. 2) Regulations 1996 shall be amended as follows —
(a) in regulation 2(1), after the definition of “cattle passport” there shall be inserted —“
 “mammalian meat and bone meal” shall have the meaning given in the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Order 199;;6”
(b) paragraph 6 of Part I of Schedule 1 shall be replaced by —
 “The herd shall have been in existence for four years, except where every animal in the herd to which the application relates comes from a herd registered under the Scheme, which shall in either case be verifiable from farm records.”;
(c) in paragraphs 7 and 8(a) of Part I of Schedule 1, before “meat” there shall be inserted “mammalian”;
(d) in paragraph 8(b) of Part I of Schedule 1, “which only produced feed for ruminants” shall be replaced by “in which, over the four years prior to the application, mammalian meat and bone meal has not, with the knowledge of the owner or operator, been stored or used”; and
(e) paragraph 4 of Part II of Schedule 1 shall be replaced by “No animal in the herd shall be fed any feed or compound feed which contains mammalian meat and bone meal.”.
Angela Browning
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
3rd October 1996Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health
John Horam
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Health
3rd October 1996Michael Forsyth
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Scottish Office
3rd October 1996Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
William Hague
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Welsh Office
2nd October 1996