Diseases of Animals Act 1966 (Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies) (Meat and Bone Meal and Poultry Offal) Order 2002
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: This Order may be cited as the Diseases of Animals Act 1966 (Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies) (Meat and Bone Meal and Poultry Offal) Order 2002.
Interpretation
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paragraphs: (1) In this Order —
“Act” means the Diseases of Animals Act 1966 ( No. 6 of 1966 );
“acts of the institutions of the European Community” means (other than in Article 10) Council Decision No. 2000/766/EC of 4 December 20001 as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1326/2001 of 29 June 20012 and Commission Decision No. 2002/246/EC of 27 March 20023 , Commission Decision No. 2001/9/EC of 29 December 20004 as amended by Commission Decision No. 2001/165/EC of 27 February 20015 and Commission Decision No. 2002/248/EC of 27 March 20023 and Regulation (EC) No. 999/2001 of the European Parliament and the Council of 22 May 20016 as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1248/2001 of 22 June 2001. Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1326/2001 of 29 June 20018 and Commission Regulation (EC) No. 270/2002 of 14 February 20029 (to the extent that those acts of the institutions of the European Community relate to meat and bone meal and poultry offal);
“animal” includes poultry;
“animal kept for farming purposes” means any animal bred or kept for the production of food, wool, skin, fur or feathers or for use in, or for the purposes of, the farming of land or of animal husbandry;
“authorised officer” means an authorised officer within the meaning of section 17A (inserted by section 2 of the Diseases of Animals (Amendment) Act 2001 (No. 3 of 2001)) of the Diseases of Animals Act 1966 (No. 6 of 1966);
“feedingstuff” includes any straight or compound feedingstuff intended for feeding to animals or poultry;
“fertilizer” means a substance or combination of substances that may be used to increase the fertility of soil;
“land” includes land under water;
“mammalian meat and bone meal” means mammalian protein derived from the whole or part of a dead mammal by a process including crushing, cooking or grinding and includes a feedingstuff or substance that consists of or contains any thing aforesaid;
“manufacture” means total or partial manufacture and includes incorporating, processing, compounding, formulating, filling, dividing up, packing, labelling and presentation and cognate words shall be construed accordingly;
“poultry offal” means any material derived from a poultry carcase or the feathers of poultry and includes a feedingstuff or substance that consists of or contains any thing aforesaid;
“protein” means any proteinaceous material, which is derived from a carcase but does not include —
(a) milk, a milk product, egg or egg product,
(b) dicalcium bone phosphate,
(c) dried plasma or any other blood product,
(d) gelatin, or
(e) amino acids produced from hides and skins by a process which involves exposure of the material to acid of a pH lower than 2 followed by alkali of a pH greater than 11 and heat treatment at a minimum of 140°C for 30 minutes at a pressure of 3 bar;
“purchase” includes buy, take in exchange, accept as a gift or otherwise receive and cognate words shall be construed accordingly;
“ruminant” includes cattle, deer, goats and sheep;
“sell” includes offer, expose or keep for sale, invite an offer to buy, or distribute (whether for reward or not) and cognate words shall be construed accordingly;
“substance” means any matter irrespective of origin, whether such matter is of—
(a) human origin (including human blood and human blood products),
(b) animal origin (including micro-organisms, whole or parts of animals, parts of organs and animal secretions toxins, antitoxins, sera, antisera, extracts and blood products),
(c) vegetable origin (including micro-organisms, plants parts of plants and vegetable secretions or extracts),
(d) chemical origin (including elements, naturally occurring chemical materials and chemical products obtained by chemical change or synthesis), or
(e) any combination of the foregoing;
“supply” includes give without reward.
(2) A word or expression that is used in this Order and that is also used in an act of the institutions of the European Community has, unless the contrary intention appears, the same meaning in this Order as it has in act in which it occurs.