2001 No. 66
Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001
Made
Coming into operation
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, being a Department designated1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19722 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by the said section 2(2), hereby makes the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation1
1
These Regulations may be cited as the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 and shall come into operation on 30th March 2001.
2
The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 19543 shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Amendment of Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19962
In Schedule 11, paragraph 3, to the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 19964 for sub-paragraph (2)(c) there shall be substituted the following:
c
a maximum of 30% carbon dioxide by volume and a minimum of 60% argon (or other inert gas) by volume in atmospheric air, with no more than 2% residual oxygen.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 19th February 2001.
(This note is not part of the Regulations.)