{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-scotland-order-2012/article-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-scotland-order-2012/article-18.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2012/199",
  "legislation_title": "The Bluetongue (Scotland) Order 2012",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bluetongue-scotland-order-2012",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Slaughterhouses",
  "text": "(1) The Scottish Ministers may designate slaughterhouses for the purposes of slaughtering animals transported out of a restricted zone.\n(2) The conditions of any designation must be such as to ensure that the slaughterhouse operates in accordance with the Commission Regulation.\n(3) The operator of a slaughterhouse in a surveillance zone may only slaughter an animal from a protection zone if licensed to do so by the Scottish Ministers.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Art. 18 in force at 24.9.2012, see art. 1(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2012/199/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-31T10:30:16.376408+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}