FOOD, ENGLAND Title, commencement and extent 1 These Regulations may be cited as the Specified Risk Material (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2000; they extend to England only and come into force on 1st October 2000. Amendments to the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997 2 1 In so far as they extend to England, the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997 are amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation. 2 In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 (interpretation) the definitions of “class I specified risk material”, “class II specified risk material” and “intestines” are revoked. 3 In paragraph (1) of regulation 2 the following definition is substituted for the definition of “specified risk material”— “specified risk material” means— specified bovine material; specified sheep or goat material; any part of the animal remaining attached to specified bovine material or specified sheep or goat material after dissection of the carcase; any animal material which comes into contact with specified bovine material or specified sheep or goat material after it has been removed from the carcase; and specified solid waste; . 4 In paragraph (1) of regulation 3 (specified sheep or goat material) the phrase “class 1” is revoked. 5 Paragraph (2) of regulation 3 is revoked. 6 In paragraph (3) of regulation 3— a the phrase “class II” is revoked; and b the words “or incinerated” are inserted between “rendered” and “whole”. 7 The following paragraph is substituted for paragraphs (1) and (2) of regulation 4 (specified bovine material)— 1 In these Regulations, “specified bovine material” means— a the following material derived from a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom or Portugal at an age greater than 6 months— i the head (excluding the tongue but including the brains, eyes, trigeminal ganglia and tonsils), ii the thymus, iii the spleen, iv the intestines from the duodenum to the rectum, and v the spinal cord; b in relation to a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom or Portugal at an age greater than 30 months (other than a bovine animal which was accompanied at the time of slaughter by a slaughter certificate issued under the Beef Assurance Scheme as described in Schedule 1 to the Fresh Meat (Beef Controls) ( No. 2) Regulations 1996 ), the vertebral column (including dorsal goot ganglia); and c the following material derived from a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died outside the United Kingdom or Portugal (other than in Australia or New Zealand) at an age greater than 12 months— i the skull (including the brains and eyes), ii the tonsils, iii the spinal cord, and iv the ileum. . 8 The following paragraph is substituted for paragraph (3) of regulation 4— 3 Whole carcases of bovine animals are specified bovine material if they are removed to be rendered or incinerated whole from the place where they were slaughtered or died. . 9 The following paragraph is added to regulation 4— 4 In paragraph (1) above, the reference to Portugal does not include a reference to the Autonomous Region of the Azores. . 10 Regulation 12 (rendering whole carcases) is revoked. 11 In regulation 14 (prohibition on the removal of brains and eyes)— a the words “which was slaughtered or has died at an age greater than” are substituted for the words “aged over”; and b the words “which at the time it was slaughtered or died either had one or more permanent incisor teeth erupted through the gum or was aged more than 12 months” are substituted for the words “(of any age at death)”. 12 In paragraph (9)(b)(ii) of regulation 24 (approved rendering plants) the words “the specified risk material referred to in paragraph (17) below” are substituted for the phrase “class II specified risk material”. 13 The following paragraph is added to regulation 24— 17 The specified risk material is— a the head of a bovine animal which was slaughtered or has died in the United Kingdom at an age greater than 6 months except— i the skull (including the brains and eyes), and ii the tongue; and b the material referred to in paragraphs (c) and (d) of the definition of that phrase. . Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health Gisela Stuart Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health 28th September 2000