PART 8

Ancillary provisions

Notices
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1
Any notice required or authorised to be served under these Regulations to any person may be given by—
a
delivering it to the person;
b
leaving it at the person's proper address; or
c
sending it by post to the person at that address.
2
Any such notice which is to be served on a body corporate or an unincorporated association other than a partnership must be served on an officer of the body corporate or unincorporated association.
3
Any such notice which is to be served on a partnership (including a Scottish partnership) must be served on a partner or a person having the control or management of the partnership business.
4
For the purposes of this regulation and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 in its application to this regulation, the proper address of any person on whom a notice is to be served is—
a
in the case of a body corporate, the address of the registered or principal office of the body corporate;
b
in the case of an unincorporated association (other than a partnership), the address of the principal office of the unincorporated association;
c
in the case of a partnership (including a Scottish partnership), the address of the registered or principal office of the partnership; and
d
in any other case, the last known address of the person in question.
5
If a person on whom a notice is to be served under these Regulations has specified an address for service of such a notice, that address is also to be treated, for the purposes of this regulation and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 in its application to this regulation, as that person's proper address.
6
If the name or address of any occupier of premises on whom a notice is to be served under these Regulations cannot, after reasonable inquiry, be ascertained, the notice may be served by leaving it conspicuously affixed to a building or object on the premises.
7
In this regulation—
a
“body corporate” does not include a partnership; and
b
references to serving include references to similar expressions (such as giving or sending).

Transitional provisions
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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 3 applies.

Consequential amendments
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The consequential amendments in Schedule 4 have effect.

Repeals and revocations
29
The repeals and revocations in Schedule 5 have effect.

Modification of the 1995 Regulations
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1
Part II (requirements applicable to slaughterhouses and knackers' yards) of, and Schedules 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 to, the 1995 Regulations cease to have effect in relation to slaughterhouses (within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the 1995 Regulations).
2
The 1995 Regulations are amended as follows—
a
revoke regulation 4 (humane treatment of animals);
b
revoke regulation 6(1)(d) (animal welfare legislation and codes);
ba
revoke regulation 7 (codes of practice);
c
revoke regulation 22 (exemption for slaughter by a religious method);
d
revoke Schedule 1 (the licensing of slaughtermen);
e
in Schedule 2, revoke paragraph 1(a) (general requirements for all slaughterhouses and knackers' yards);
f
in Schedule 4, revoke paragraph 4 (restraint of animals before stunning, slaughter or killing);
g
in Schedule 9, in paragraph 2(d) (permitted methods of slaughtering or killing animals for the purpose of disease control) omit “rabbits and”; and
h
in Schedule 12, revoke paragraph 8 (prohibition against slaughter by a religious method elsewhere than in a slaughterhouse).
3
Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2), a registered licence required by, or granted in accordance with, paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations which is still in force immediately before 1st January 2013 continues in existence for the purpose of recognition as a qualification equivalent to a certificate in accordance with Article 21(7).
1978 c.30.
Reg. 30(2)(ba) inserted (1.1.2013) by The Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012 (S.S.I. 2012/355), regs. 1, 2(2)