Meat Products (Hygiene) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Meat products and other products of animal origin from Great Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands

23.—(1) The places to which this regulation applies are Great Britain, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands.

(2) A person shall not—

(a)sell for human consumption from any premises approved under regulation 4—

(i)any meat product; or

(ii)any other product of animal origin,

which has been handled or stored in a place to which this regulation applies and which is intended for consignment to a relevant EEA State; or

(b)sell for human consumption any meat product or other product of animal origin which has been handled or stored in a place to which this regulation applies after 8th December 1998,

unless any handling or storing of that product in that place was in accordance with legislation having effect in that place and corresponding to these Regulations.

(3) A person shall not sell for human consumption in Northern Ireland any meat product which has been handled after 8th December 1998 in a place to which this regulation applies unless it carries the relevant EC health mark or the relevant regional health mark.

(4) In this regulation “the relevant EC health mark” and “the relevant regional health mark”, in relation to any place to which this regulation applies, mean a mark applied in accordance with legislation having effect in that place and corresponding to the provisions of Part VI of Schedule 2 or paragraph 2 of Part II of Schedule 3 relating to the United Kingdom EC health mark or (as the case may be) the Northern Ireland regional health mark.