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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001, shall come into operation on 17th June 2001.
(2) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
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(1) Regulation 24 of the Specified Risk Material Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.
(2) In paragraph (5), for the words “Without prejudice to the storage requirements of regulation 28,” there shall be substituted the words “Subject to paragraph (5A), and without prejudice to the storage requirements of regulation 28,”.
(3) After paragraph (5) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs—“
(5A) The operator of a rendering plant may at that plant keep, handle, store or render specified risk material together with other material provided—
(a) all of that material is kept, handled, stored and rendered at the plant in accordance with the requirements of these Regulations as if it were specified risk material; and
(b) he makes and keeps for a period of two years from the date of its arrival at the plant a record of the exact quantity of the specified risk material and the other material together with which the specified risk material is kept, handled, stored and rendered, and accordingly, for the purposes of these Regulations, references to specified risk material shall include references to any—
(i) specified risk material kept, handled, stored or rendered together with other material under this paragraph; and
(ii) any other material together with which the specified risk material is kept, handled, stored or rendered.”.
(4) In regulation 24(9) for the words “After specified risk material has been processed and separated into protein and tallow the operator of the plant shall ensure that” there shall be substituted the words “Subject to paragraph (9A), after the specified risk material has been processed and separated into protein and tallow the operator of the plant shall ensure that”.
(5) After paragraph (9) there shall be inserted the following paragraph—“
(9A) The operator of a rendering plant shall ensure that no protein or tallow produced from any specified risk material—
(a) is consigned from the plant for disposal by burial; or
(b) is disposed of by burial,
unless the specified risk material has been processed at the plant in accordance with method 4 prescribed in Part II of Schedule 1.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 8th May 2001.
R. S. Johnston
A senior officer of the
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
