SCOTTISH OFFICE AGRICULTURE, ENVIRONMENT AND FISHERIES DEPARTMENT

WELSH OFFICE AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 1, 10(1)(a) and (c) and (2), 11, 29(2)(b), 35(1), 76(3) and 83(2) of, and paragraphs 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 of Schedule 2 to the Animal Health Act 1981(a), as applied by the Zoonoses Order 1988(b), hereby make the following Order:   S.I. 1997, No. 2964   This Order may be cited as the Specified Risk Material Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st January 1998.   This Order revokes the Specified Bovine Materials Order 1997 and the Heads of Sheep and Goats Order 1996. This Order re-makes with amendments the provisions of those Orders prohibiting the use of specified bovine material in feeding stuffs and cosmetic, pharmaceutical and medical products. The controls on the use of specified bovine material in food, and the provisions relating to the removal of specified bovine material from cattle and its destruction are now contained in the Specified Risk Material Regulations 1997.   The Order imposes controls on the import of class 1 specified risk material (defined in article 2 by reference to the definitions of specified bovine material and specified sheep and goat material set out in articles 3 and 4), and requires imported food and feedingstuffs of the types set out in Schedule 1 to be certified by the veterinary authorities in the place from which they were despatched to the UK as not containing class 1 specified risk material (article 6).   A Regulatory Assessment for this Order has been prepared and placed in the library of each House of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from the Animal Health (BSE and International Trade) Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Government Buildings, Hook Rise South, Tolworth, Surbiton, Surrey KT6 7NF.   Copies of the above-mentioned Order may be obtained from The Stationery Office, PO Box 7923, London SE1 5ZH or 71 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9AZ, price £2.40p.