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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sheep-carcase-classification-and-price-reporting-england-regulations-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-6",
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  "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": "schedule/2/paragraph/6",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The coordinator nominated under paragraph 5 must—\n(a) monitor the work of the panel convened under paragraph 1;\n(b) ensure that each panel member carries out the visual classifications of the carcases independently and anonymously from the other panel members;\n(c) verify that each carcase classified is—\n(i) obtained from a sheep aged less than 12 months at the time of slaughter; and\n(ii) presented in the same way as all other carcases used in the test process, that being in accordance with the requirements of regulation 7;\n(d) collect—\n(i) the classification results of the members of the panel; and\n(ii) the classification results obtained by using the automated classification method,\nfor each carcase;\n(e) ensure that, during the entire duration of the authorisation test, the classification results obtained by using the automated classification method are not available to any member of the panel or to any other interested party;\n(f) make a decision whether, for objective reasons they must specify, any carcases should be excluded from the sample to be used for the analysis;\n(g) ensure that the analysis sample includes a spread of carcases which is representative of the variety of sheep slaughtered in regulated slaughterhouses;\n(h) send the results to the Secretary of State and the data analyst-statistician nominated under paragraph 7; and\n(i) send to the Secretary of State a report on how the test was conducted, including information on how the carcases were presented during the test process.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348272369/schedule/2/paragraph/6",
    "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."
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