Control and eradication of TSE - notification
- Notify the Department of suspected TSE in bovine animals and detain them
Northern Ireland Statutory Rule
2018
United Kingdom
The Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018
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Schedules
Notification of TSE
- Notify the Department of suspected TSE in sheep or goats immediately
Use of milk or milk products following confirmation of classical scrapie
- Do not feed scrapie-risk milk to ruminants and follow export/transport rules
Notification
- Notify Department of suspected TSE in non-bovine/ovine/caprine animals and detain
Meat from a member State
- Send SRM‑containing cattle carcasses to an authorised cutting plant
Ovine and caprine animals in a slaughterhouse
- Remove specified risk material from sheep and goats after slaughter
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Notification of the body of a caprine animal for the purpose of monitoring under Article 6
Brain stem sampling of the body of a bovine animal (other places of slaughter)
Approval of laboratories
Approved TSE sampling sites
Retention of products and disposal
TSE sampling of ovine, caprine and cervine animals
Compensation
Arrangements in respect of the body of a bovine animal for the purpose of monitoring under Article 6
Persons collecting and delivering the body of a bovine animal
Brain stem sampling of the body of a bovine animal (Approved TSE sampling sites)
Destruction without sampling
Retention and disposal of the body of a bovine animal pending test results
Remote Areas
Consignment and slaughter of an over-age bovine animal
Brain stem sampling of bovine animals (slaughterhouses)
Compensation for a suspect animal
Compensation for a cohort animal
Compensation for an offspring animal
Compensation for Buffalo and Bison
Assessment of market value
Definitions
Returns
Restriction of a notified animal
Slaughter of a suspect animal
Identification and restriction of offspring and cohorts
Action following confirmation of TSE
Action where TSE is not confirmed
Death while under restriction
Prohibitions from placing on the market of bovine progeny
When compensation is payable
Derogation
Time for appeals
Killing and destruction following confirmation
Infected animals from other premises
Common grazing
Multiple flocks on any premises
Change of occupier
Introduction of an animal onto any premises
Use of ovine germinal products
Movement of an animal from any premises
Restriction of a notified animal
Time of movement restrictions
Death while under restriction
Prohibitions from placing on the market of progeny of a BSE affected ovine or caprine animal
Compensation for animals killed or products destroyed following confirmation of TSE
Valuations
Compensation for milk or milk products compulsorily destroyed in accordance with paragraph 8
Slaughter of a suspect animal
Movement restrictions
Action where TSE is not confirmed
Confirmation of a TSE other than BSE or atypical scrapie in ovine or caprine animals
Inability to exclude BSE in ovine or caprine animals
Confirmation of atypical scrapie in ovine or caprine animals
Restriction of a notified animal
Slaughter of a suspect animal
Compensation for an animal that is not bovine, ovine or caprine slaughtered as a suspect animal
Prohibition on feeding animal protein to ruminants
Prohibition on feeding animal protein to non-ruminants
Movement prohibitions and restrictions of animals
Slaughter of an animal
Compensation
Slaughter or sale for human consumption
Appointment of the Food Standards Agency as the competent authority
Bovine, ovine and caprine animals, in other places of slaughter
Young lamb and goat stamps
Removal of spinal cord from ovine and caprine animals
Authorisation of cutting plants by the Food Standards Agency
Removal of specified risk material at a cutting plant authorised under paragraph 13(1)
Staining and disposal of specified risk material
Security of specified risk material
Prohibition on the sale, supply or possession for sale or supply of specified risk material for human consumption
Training
Mechanically separated meat
Pithing
Tongue harvesting
Head meat harvesting
Removal of specified risk material
Bovine animals in a slaughterhouse
Placing on the market or export to third countries of bovine products
Placing on the market or export to third countries of bovine animals
Export to a member State of heads and un-split carcases
Export to third countries of products containing specified risk material
Further offences relating to placing on the market and export
TSE requirements
- Notify Department of suspected TSE in animals and detain them
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Citation and commencement
Interpretation
Appointment of competent authority
Exception for research
The Schedules
Approvals, authorisations, licences and registrations
Occupier's duty
Suspension and amendment of official documents
Revocations of official documents
Appeals
Valuations
Appointment of inspectors
Powers of entry
Powers of inspectors
Notices
Notices restricting movement
Obstruction
Penalties
Enforcement
Consequential amendment
Revocation
Transitional Provisions
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