Animal By-Products (Identification) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 (S.R. No. 238 of 2002).

These Regulations amend the 1999 Regulations as follows: (a) in regulation 2 several definitions are amended, and definitions of "cold store" and "cutting premises" are inserted (reg. 2(2)); (b) paragraph (a) of regulation 4 (scope) is replaced with a provision which provides that the only whole carcases which have to be sterilised or stained are whole poultry carcases which are dead on arrival at a slaughter-house or which are rejected following pre-slaughter or post-mortem health inspections carried out at such premises (reg. 2(3)); (c) the exemption from the requirement as to staining or sterilisation imposed by regulations 6 and 7 which is contained in regulation 5(2)(a) and which operates in favour of poultry by-products is removed and replaced with another exemption (reg. 2(4)); (d) the exemption imposed by regulations 6 and 7 is extended to apply in favour of cold stores and cutting premises also (reg. 2(5)); (e) regulation 6 is replaced with a provision which applies in relation to cold stores and cutting premises also (reg. 2(6)); (f) regulation 8 is replaced with a provision which applies in relation to cold stores and cutting premises also (reg. 2(7)); (g) regulation 9 is replaced with a provision which imposes requirements with respect to the storage of unsterilised animal by-products in the same room as products intended for human consumption and in cold stores, cutting premises, game processing facilities and slaughter-houses (reg. 2(8)); and (h) regulation 10 is replaced with a provision which applies in relation to cold stores and cutting premises also (reg. 2(9)).