for emergency reasons relating to the welfare of any animal has to slaughter or kill that animal immediately;

slaughters or kills any animal elsewhere than in a slaughterhouse or knacker’s yard, provided that he is the owner of the animal and the slaughter or killing is for his private consumption;

slaughters or kills any animal other than for a commercial purpose;

kills by means of a free bullet any animal in the field;

kills a bird by means of dislocation of the neck or decapitation on premises forming part of an agricultural holding on which the bird was reared;

kills any animal for the purpose of disease control in accordance with Schedule 9;

kills any fox or mink in accordance with Schedule 10;

kills surplus chicks or embryos in hatchery waste in accordance with Schedule 11;

operates any automatic equipment used to stun, slaughter or kill any animal without performing any of the operations specified in paragraph 3;

shackles birds before stunning or killing; or

is a veterinary surgeon acting in the exercise of his profession or a person acting under the direction of a veterinary surgeon so acting.