The Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014 No. 107

PART 8 N.I. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

Consequential amendments N.I.

35.  Schedule 6 (consequential amendments) has effect.

Transitional provisions: certificates N.I.

36.  Schedule 7 (transitional provisions: certificates) has effect.

Transitional provisions: slaughterhouses N.I.

37.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies in relation to a slaughterhouse in operation immediately before 1st January 2013, but does not apply in relation to—

(a) any new layout or construction of such a slaughterhouse (or associated lairage) brought into operation after that date; or

(b) any new equipment used in such a slaughterhouse and brought into operation after that date.

(2) In relation to a slaughterhouse to which this paragraph applies, until 8th December 2019—

(a) Article 14(1) and Annex II do not apply; and

(b) Schedule 8 applies.

Review N.I.

38.—(1) The Department may from time to time—

(a) carry out a review of these Regulations;

(b) set out the conclusions of the review in a report; and

(c) publish the report.

(2) In carrying out a review the Department must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how the EU Regulation is enforced in [F1 member States] .

(3) The report must in particular—

(a) set out the objectives intended to be achieved by these Regulations;

(b) assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved; and

(c) assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved in a less burdensome way.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. 38(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agriculture, Animals and Aquaculture (Health, Identification, Welfare, Trade etc.) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2020 (S.R. 2020/324), regs. 1(3), 19(3)

Revocations N.I.

39.  The instruments mentioned in columns 1 and 2 of Schedule 9 (revocations) are revoked to the extent specified in column 3 of that Schedule.