PART 8

Ancillary provisions

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).
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)