Licensing of operators
3.—(1) Managing a track is an activity for the purposes of section 13(1) of the Animal Welfare Act 2006.
(2) But managing a track is not an activity for the purposes of section 13(1) of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 if the operator is regulated in relation to the operation of that track by a body which—
(a)is accredited by the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, or other signatory of the EA multi-lateral agreement(1) of the European co-operation for Accreditation(2), as demonstrating compliance with the ISO/IEC standard Guide 65:1996(3) of the International Standards Organisation’s standards for bodies operating product certification systems in relation to the service of the regulation of greyhound racing tracks; and
(b)requires compliance by the operator with the requirements contained in the licensing conditions.
The EA multi-lateral agreement can be found at http://www.european-accreditation.org/n1/doc/EA-1-06.pdf. A list of signatories to this Agreement can be found at: http://www.european-accreditation.org/content/mla/scopes.htm.
EA Secretariat, 37 rue de Lyon, 75012 Paris, France or secretariat@european-accreditation.org.
ISO Central Secretariat, International Organization for Standardization (ISO), 1 rue de Varembé, Case postale 56, CH-1211, Geneva 20, Switzerland.