# The Bovines and Bovine Products (Trade) Regulations 1999, Regulation 22: Offences and penalties


(1) No person shall slaughter a bovine animal, for the purpose of deriving from the animal any DBES goods, otherwise than in an establishment approved for the slaughter of DBES eligible animals under regulation 10 above.
(2) No person shall slaughter a bovine animal, for the purpose of deriving from the animal any DBES goods, unless the animal is a DBES eligible animal at the time of slaughter.
(3) A person contravening or failing to comply with paragraph (1) or (2) above, or with any other provision of these Regulations, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable–
(a) on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both;
(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.
(4) Where a body corporate is guilty of an offence under these Regulations, and that offence is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to have been attributable to any neglect on the part of–
(a) any director, manager, secretary or other similar person of the body corporate, or
(b) any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity,
he, as well as the body corporate, shall be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.
(5) For the purposes of paragraph (1) above, “director”, in relation to a body corporate whose affairs are managed by its members, means a member of the body corporate.
(6) Where an offence under these Regulations which has been committed by a Scottish partnership is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, a partner, he as well as the partnership shall be guilty of the offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1103/regulation/22 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/bovines-and-bovine-products-trade-regulations-1999/regulation-22
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