{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sheep-carcase-classification-and-price-reporting-england-regulations-2025/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sheep-carcase-classification-and-price-reporting-england-regulations-2025/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348272369",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheep Carcase (Classification and Price Reporting) (England) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sheep-carcase-classification-and-price-reporting-england-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Labelling of carcases",
  "text": "(1) The operator of a regulated slaughterhouse must ensure that each carcase classified in that slaughterhouse is labelled at the time of classification with a label containing the following information—\n(a) the identifying kill number allocated under regulation 8;\n(b) the date of slaughter of the animal from which the carcase was obtained;\n(c) the approval number of the slaughterhouse;\n(d) the classification of the carcase determined under regulation 5(2)(b), (3) and (4);\n(e) the cold weight of the carcase; and\n(f) whether classification was carried out visually or by automated classification method.\n(2) Labels used for the purposes of paragraph (1) must be clearly legible, tamper-proof and firmly attached to the carcase.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The number allocated by the Food Standards Agency to a slaughterhouse approved or conditionally approved under EUR 2004/853, amended by S.I. 2019/640; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348272369/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:39:05.649314+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."
}