These Regulations correct errors in the Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (“the Regulations”).

Regulation 2(2) amends regulation 30 of the Regulations to make provision for the revocation of regulation 7 of the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995.

Regulation 2(3) makes amendments to paragraphs 9, 10 and 11 of Schedule 1 to the Regulations to replace references to stunning with references to killing and other minor amendments consequential upon those changes.

Regulation 2(4) corrects an error in a cross-reference in the table in Part 1 of Schedule 5 in order to repeal paragraph 3 of Schedule 9 to the Deregulation and Contracting Out Act 1994.

A business and regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.