Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1996 No. 558

WELFARE OF ANIMALS

Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996

Made

29th November 1996

Coming into operation

30th November 1996

The Department of Agriculture, being a Department designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by the said section 2(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations:

(1)

S.I. 1972/1811

(2)

1972 c. 68; section 2 is subject to Schedule 2 to that Act and is to be read with S.I. 1984/703 (N.I. 3) and S.I. 1994/2795 (N.I. 15)