Statutory Instruments
1995 No. 1955

FOOD
The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (England, Wales and Scotland) (Revocation) Regulations 1995

Made
21st July 1995

Laid before Parliament
25th July 1995

Coming into force
15th August 1995

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in relation to England and Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland in relation to Scotland, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 6(4), 16(1)(a), (b), (c), (d), and (f), (2) and (3), 26(3) and 48(1) of, and paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 1 to, the Food Safety Act 1990(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation in accordance with section 48(4) of the said Act with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests likely to be substantially affected by the Regulations, hereby make the following Regulations:

Title and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (England, Wales and Scotland) (Revocation) Regulations 1995 and shall come into force on 15th August 1995.

Revocations

2.  The Regulations specified in columns 1 and 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations are hereby revoked to the extent specified in column 3 of that Schedule.

Amendment

3.  After the definition of “scientific purposes” in regulation 2(1) of the Animal By-Products (Identification) Regulations 1995(2) there shall be inserted the following—

““specified bovine offal” means—

(a)
the brain, spinal cord, spleen, thymus, tonsils and intestines of a bovine animal six months old or over which has died in the United Kingdom or has been slaughtered there;

(b)
the thymus and intestines of a bovine animal two months old or over but less than six months old which has died in the United Kingdom or has been slaughtered there;

(c)
the thymus and intestines of a bovine animal under two months old which has been slaughtered in the United Kingdom for human consumption,

and includes anything left attached to such organ after dissection of the carcase and any animal matter which comes into contact with the organ after it has been removed from the carcase, but does not include a whole carcase;.”

Angela Browning
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
20th July 1995

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health

Cumberlege
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Department of Health
21st July 1995

Lindsay
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Scottish Office
20th July 1995

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales

Gwilym Jones
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State,
Welsh Office
20th July 1995

Regulation 2

SCHEDULEREVOCATIONS

Column 1 Regulations revoked
Column 2 References
Column 3 Extent of Revocation

The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) Regulations 1989

S.I. 1989/2061

The whole regulations

The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Scotland) Regulations 1990
S.I. 1990/112

The whole regulations

The Food Safety Act 1990 (Consequential Modifications) (England and Wales) Order 1990
S.I. 1990/2486

The references to the Bovine Offal (Prohibition) Regulations 1989 in Schedules 1,, 4,, 5 and 10

The Food Safety Act 1990 (Consequential Modifications) (Scotland) Order 1990
S.I. 1990/2625

Article 12 and the references to the Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Scotland) Regulations 1990 in Schedules 1,, 3,, 4 and 8

The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1992
S.I. 1992/158

The whole regulations

The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Amendment) Regulations 1992
S.I. 1992/306

The whole regulations

The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1994
S.I. 1994/2544

The whole regulations

The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Amendment) Regulations 1994
S.I. 1994/2628

The whole regulations

The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1995
S.I. 1995/537

The whole regulations

The Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Amendment) Regulations 1995
S.I. 1995/613

The whole regulations

The Animal By-Products (Identification) Regulations 1995
S.I. 1995/614

In sub-paragraph (f) of regulation 5(1),, the words “as defined in regulation 2(1)(b) of the Bovine Offal (Prohibition) Regulations 1989” and the whole of regulation 16

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations, which extend to Great Britain, come into force on 15th August 1995.
The Regulations revoke in their entirety the Bovine Offal (Prohibition) Regulations 1989 (S.I. 1989/2061) (as amended) and the Bovine Offal (Prohibition) (Scotland) Regulations 1990 (S.I. 1990/112) (as amended), which control specified bovine offal (regulation 2 and Schedule). Specified bovine offal is now controlled by the Specified Bovine Offal Order 1995, which comes into force on the same day as these Regulations (“the SBO Order”).
The Regulations also make some consequential revocations (regulation 2 and Schedule).
The Regulations also amend the Animal By-Products (Identification) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/614), which cross-refer to the definition of specified bovine offal contained in the Bovine Offal (Prohibition) Regulations 1989, by inserting a new definition of specified bovine offal identical to that in the SBO Order (regulation 3).


(1)
1990 c. 16; “the Ministers” is defined in section 4(1); section 6(4) was amended by the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994 (c. 40), section 31 and Schedule 9, paragraph 6.

(2)
S.I. 1995/614.