1Title and commencement#
These Regulations may be cited as the Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st January 1998.
2Amendment of the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997#
(1)The Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997 shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.
(2)At the end of regulation 7 there shall be added the following paragraph—“5 This regulation shall not apply to a food containing specified risk material derived only from animals which were slaughtered or died outside the United Kingdom which is either—a a food not listed in Schedule 1 to the Specified Risk Material Order 1997; orb a food which is so listed, but it was, or any ingredients in it containing specified risk material were, imported in accordance with article 6 of that Order.”
(3)At the end of regulation 19 there shall be added the following paragraph—“2 This regulation shall not apply to a carcase of a sheep or goat slaughtered before 1st January 1998.”
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