The Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (Wales) Regulations 2014
PART 1
1
Title, application and commencement
2
Expiry
3
Interpretation
4
The competent authority
PART 2
CHAPTER 1
5
Requirement for a certificate or temporary certificate
6
Operations which require a certificate or temporary certificate
7
Certificates
8
Conditions for a certificate
9
Temporary certificates
10
Conditions for a temporary certificate
11
Grant of certificates and temporary certificates
CHAPTER 2
12
Requirement for a licence
13
Operations which require a licence
14
Exceptions to the requirement for a licence
15
Licences
16
Conditions for a licence
17
Grant of licences
CHAPTER 3
18
Refusal to grant a certificate, temporary certificate or licence
19
Suspension or revocation of a certificate, temporary certificate or licence
20
Modification of a certificate or licence
21
Refusal to modify a certificate or licence
22
Appeals
23
WASK licences
24
Fees
PART 3
25
Additional requirements for slaughterhouses
26
Additional requirements for killing animals other than in slaughterhouses
27
Additional requirements for killing animals in accordance with religious rites
28
Killing animals other than those to which the EU Regulation applies
PART 4
29
Depopulation operations
PART 5
30
Offences
31
Obstruction offences
32
Offences by bodies corporate
33
Penalties
PART 6
34
Inspectors
35
Power to enter premises
36
Warrants
37
Power to inspect and seize
38
Enforcement notices
39
Appeals against enforcement notices
40
Power of local authority to prosecute
41
Time limit for prosecutions
PART 7
42
Notices
43
Consequential and supplementary amendments
44
Transitional provision: certificates
45
Transitional provision: slaughterhouses (layout, construction and equipment)
46
Revocations
SCHEDULE 1
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR SLAUGHTERHOUSES
PART 1
1
Interpretation
2
Scope
PART 2
Layout, construction and equipment of slaughterhouses
3
General requirements
4
Animals delivered other than in containers
5
Lairages other than field lairages
6
Field lairages
7
Shackle lines
8
Stunning pens
9
Facilities for horses
PART 3
Handling operations
10
General requirements
11
Inspection of animals
12
Animals which have experienced pain or suffering and unweaned animals
13
Animals delivered other than in containers
14
The driving of animals
15
Moving animals with care
16
Instruments for guiding animals
17
Lairaging of animals
PART 4
Restraining operations
18
General requirement
19
Restraining bovine animals
20
Suspending poultry
21
Shackle lines
22
Restraining operations
PART 5
Stunning and killing operations
23
General requirements
24
Penetrative captive bolts
25
Non-penetrative captive bolts
26
Percussive blow to the head
27
Electrical stunning other than by waterbath
28
Electrical stunning by waterbath
29
Exposure to gas – pigs
30
Exposure to gas – poultry
31
Bleeding or pithing
32
Horses
SCHEDULE 2
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR KILLING ANIMALS OTHER THAN IN SLAUGHTERHOUSES
PART 1
Introductory
1
Interpretation
2
Scope
3
Exemptions
PART 2
Layout, construction and equipment of premises
4
General requirements
5
Animals delivered other than in containers
6
Lairages other than field lairages
7
Field lairages
8
Shackle lines
9
Stunning pens
10
Facilities for horses
PART 3
Handling operations
11
General requirements
12
Inspection of animals
13
Animals which have experienced pain or suffering and unweaned animals
14
Emergency killing
15
Animals delivered other than in containers
16
The lifting or dragging of animals
17
The driving of animals
18
Moving animals with care
19
Instruments to guide animals
20
Instruments to make animals move
21
Treatment of animals
22
Lairaging of animals
23
Handling of animals delivered in containers
24
Killing of animals delivered in containers
25
Poultry awaiting killing at place of purchase
PART 4
Restraining operations
26
General requirement
27
Restraining bovine animals
28
Electric currents
29
Tying legs
30
Suspending animals
31
Shackle lines
32
Restraining operations
PART 5
Stunning and killing operations
33
General requirements
34
Penetrative captive bolts
35
Non-penetrative captive bolts
36
Percussive blow to the head
37
Electrical stunning other than by waterbath
38
Electrical stunning by waterbath
39
Exposure to gas – prohibition
40
Exposure to gas – pigs
41
Exposure to gas – poultry
42
Bleeding or pithing
43
Horses
44
Surplus chicks in hatchery waste
SCHEDULE 3
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR KILLING ANIMALS IN ACCORDANCE WITH RELIGIOUS RITES
PART 1
Introductory
1
Interpretation
2
General prohibition
PART 2
Sheep, goats and bovine animals
3
Restraint of adult bovine animals
4
Use and maintenance of restraining pens
5
Method of killing
6
Handling of sheep, goats and bovine animals during killing
PART 3
Birds
7
Method of killing
8
Handling birds during killing
PART 4
Rabbinical Commission
9
Membership
10
Supplementary
SCHEDULE 4
KILLING ANIMALS OTHER THAN THOSE TO WHICH THE EU REGULATION APPLIES
1
Interpretation
2
Scope
3
Exemptions
4
Humane killing
5
Poultry, rabbits or hares bled for private domestic consumption
SCHEDULE 5
PROVISIONS OF THE EU REGULATION
SCHEDULE 6
CONSEQUENTIAL AND SUPPLEMENTARY AMENDMENTS
1
The Meat (Official Controls Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2009
SCHEDULE 7
TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS (CERTIFICATES)
1
Operations in a slaughterhouse immediately before 1 January 2013
2
Simplified procedure for persons who have three years’ professional experience
SCHEDULE 8
TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS (SLAUGHTERHOUSES)
1
Animals delivered other than in containers
2
Lairages other than field lairages
3
Field lairages
4
Shackle lines
5
Electrical stunning other than by waterbath
6
Electrical stunning by waterbath
7
Exposure to gas
2014 No. 951 (W. 92)

Animals, Wales

Prevention Of Cruelty

The Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (Wales) Regulations 2014
Made
8 April 2014
Laid before the National Assembly for Wales
10 April 2014
Coming into force
20 May 2014
The Welsh Ministers are designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Union and make these Regulations in exercise of those powers, and the powers conferred by paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to that Act, and with the consent of the Treasury under section 56(1) of the Finance Act 1973 .
These Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, and it appears to the Welsh Ministers that it is expedient for the references in these Regulations to the Annexes to Council Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009 of 24 September 2009 on the protection of animals at the time of killing to be construed as references to those Annexes as amended from time to time.
1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and section 3(3) of the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7).
S.I. 2010/2690.
1973 c.51. Section 56 was amended by S.I. 2011/1043, article 6(1)(e).
OJ No L 303, 18.11.2009, p.1.