{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-hides-regulations-1997/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-hides-regulations-1997/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/813",
  "legislation_title": "The Bovine Hides Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/bovine-hides-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "General requirements in relation to controlled hides",
  "text": "(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) below, no person shall buy, sell or otherwise deal with a controlled hide unless—\n(a) he is a registered dealer or a registered tannery controller;\n(b) he keeps and transports it in a place which is physically separated from any place in which any hide other than a controlled hide is kept or transported; and\n(c) he keeps records of his dealings with that hide in accordance with regulation 7 below.\n(2) The operator of a scheme slaughterhouse may sell a controlled hide.\n(3) No person shall sell or deliver a controlled hide to any person except a registered hide dealer or a registered tannery controller.\n(4) No person shall remove trimmings or fleshings from a controlled hide, or split a controlled hide, except at a scheme slaughterhouse or a tannery controlled by a registered tannery controller.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/813/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:20:53.669131+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."
}