Specified Risk Material (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1999 (S.R. No. 157 of 1999).

The amendments made by these Regulations have the effect of allowing the export to certain premises in France of carcases of older sheep containing spinal cord which is "specified risk material" as defined in regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations. The amendments disapply regulation 6(1) of the principal Regulations, which prohibits selling for human consumption specified risk material or food containing same)and part of regulation 9(2) of those Regulations (requirement for slaughterhouse operator to remove specified risk material from carcases of sheep slaughtered there) in the case of sheep carcases containing spinal cord which is specified risk material which are intended for export whole direct to listed premises. A new regulation (reg. 16A) is inserted in the principal Regulations, requiring the marking of those sheep carcases containing spinal cord which is specified risk material which are intended for export whole direct to listed premises. A further new regulation (reg. 19A) is inserted in the principal Regulations imposing requirements with respect to the arrival of the carcases concerned at the listed premises to which it was intended they should be transported.