1. The requirements of this Schedule shall not apply to any person who—
(a)for emergency reasons relating to the welfare of any animal has to slaughter or kill that animal immediately;
(b)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;
(c)slaughters or kills any animal other than for a commercial purpose;
(d)kills by means of a free bullet any animal in the field;
(e)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;
(f)kills any animal for the purpose of disease control in accordance with Schedule 9;
(g)kills any fox or mink in accordance with Schedule 10;
(h)kills surplus chicks or embryos in hatchery waste in accordance with Schedule 11;
(i)operates any automatic equipment used to stun, slaughter or kill any animal without performing any of the operations specified in paragraph 3;
(j)shackles birds before stunning or killing; or
(k)is a veterinary surgeon acting in the exercise of his profession or a person acting under the direction of a veterinary surgeon so acting.