The Slaughter of Animals (Humane Conditions) Regulations 1990

PART VII

Notices, records and returns

31.  The occupier of a slaughterhouse or knacker’s yard in which horses are slaughtered shall notify the local authority which has granted a licence in respect of those premises under section 1 of the Act of every place where horses intended for slaughter there are kept by him or on his behalf.

32.—(1) Subject to regulation 35 below, the occupier of a slaughterhouse in which horses are slaughtered shall keep a record of all horses or carcases of horses received into the slaughterhouse showing—

(a) the date on which each horse or carcase was received into the slaughterhouse and the date on which each horse was slaughtered; and

(b) the name and address of the person on whose behalf the horse was slaughtered or from whom the horse or carcase (as the case may be) has been received by the occupier of the slaughterhouse.

(2) The occupier of a slaughterhouse (other than a local authority) or knacker’s yard in which horses are slaughtered shall, during the month of January in each year, render to the local authority of the area in which the slaughterhouse or knacker’s yard is situated a return showing the total number of horses slaughtered during the year ending on the immediately preceding thirty first day of December.

33.  Subject to regulation 35 below, the occupier of a knacker’s yard shall keep a record of all animals and carcases of animals received into the yard showing—

(a) the type or a description of each animal or carcase received;

(b) the date on which the animal or carcase was received into the knacker’s yard and the date on which the animal was slaughtered; and

(c) the name and address of the person from whom the animal or carcase was purchased or received by the occupier of the yard.

34.  Every record required to be kept by an occupier of a slaughterhouse or knacker’s yard under regulations 32 and 33 above shall be retained by him at the slaughterhouse or knacker’s yard to which it relates for a period of 12 months from the date of the transaction to which it relates and he shall, on demand made at any reasonable time by an authorised officer of the appropriate Minister or of the local authority of the area in which the slaughterhouse or knacker’s yard is situated, produce such record and allow a copy of it or an extract from it to be taken.

35.  Where, under any bye-law made by a local authority, the occupier of a slaughterhouse or knacker’s yard keeps a record of animals brought into those premises and of the manner in which such animals and the various parts of such animals are disposed of, the retention by the occupier of that record shall, as respects the particulars mentioned in it, be taken as compliance with the provisions of regulations 32 and 33 above.