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Codes of Practice

6.—(1) A person responsible for a farmed animal—

(a)must not attend to the animal unless he or she is acquainted with any relevant code of practice and has access to the code while attending to the animal; and

(b)must take all reasonable steps to ensure that a person employed or engaged by him or her does not attend to the animal unless that other person—

(i)is acquainted with any relevant code of practice;

(ii)has access to the code while attending to the animal; and

(iii)has received instruction and guidance on the code.

(2) In this section, a “relevant code of practice” (“cod ymarfer perthnasnol”)means a code of practice issued under section 14 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 or a statutory welfare code issued under section 3 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968(1) relating to the particular species of farmed animal to which a person is attending.