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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-mutilations-permitted-procedures-england-regulations-2007/schedule-3",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110757797",
  "legislation_title": "The Mutilations (Permitted Procedures) (England) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-mutilations-permitted-procedures-england-regulations-2007",
  "path": "schedule/3",
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  "number": "3",
  "heading": "PIGS: REQUIREMENTS WHEN CARRYING OUT CERTAIN PERMITTED PROCEDURES",
  "text": "When carried out on a pig, a procedure listed below must be carried out in accordance with the condition or conditions specified for that procedure.\n1. Castration\nThe method used must not involve the tearing of tissues.\nAn anaesthetic and additional prolonged analgesia must be administered where the animal is aged 7 days or over.\n2. Implantation of a subcutaneous contraceptive\nThe procedure may not be carried out on a farmed animal.\nThe procedure may only be carried out as part of a conservation breeding programme.\n3. Vasectomy\nAn anaesthetic must be administered.\n4. Nose ringing\nThe procedure may only be carried out on an animal that is not kept continuously in an indoor husbandry system.\n5. Tail docking\nThe procedure may only be carried out where measures to improve environmental conditions or management systems have first been taken to prevent tail-biting, but there is still evidence to show that injury to pigs’ tails by biting has occurred.\nThe method used must involve quick and complete severance of the tail.\nAn anaesthetic and additional prolonged analgesia must be administered where the animal is aged 7 days or over.\n6. Tooth reduction\nThe procedure may only be carried out on an animal that is aged not more than 7 days.\nThe procedure must consist only of the uniform reduction of the corner teeth by either grinding or clipping so as to leave an intact smooth surface.\nThe procedure may only be carried out where measures to improve environmental conditions or management systems have first been taken to prevent tail-biting and other vices, but there is still evidence to show that injury to sows’ teats or to other pigs’ ears or tails by biting has occurred.\n7. Tusk trimming\nThe procedure may only be carried out where there is evidence to show that it is necessary to prevent injury to other animals or for safety reasons.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2007/9780110757797/schedule/3",
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  "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."
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