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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sheep-carcase-classification-and-price-reporting-scotland-regulations-2025/regulation-17",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2025/9780111064030",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheep Carcase (Classification and Price Reporting) (Scotland) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-sheep-carcase-classification-and-price-reporting-scotland-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Suspension, revocation or variation of licence to use automated classification methods",
  "text": "(1) Where paragraph (2), (3) or (4) applies, the Scottish Ministers may, in addition to the actions available under Part 8, suspend, revoke or vary the terms and conditions of an automated classification licence.\n(2) This paragraph applies where, as a result of on-the-spot checks carried out under regulation 23 (on-the-spot checks) or when exercising powers under regulations 25 (powers of entry) or 26 (powers of authorised officers), the Scottish Ministers ascertain that the automated classification method, or the manner of its operation within the regulated slaughterhouse, has generated a significant number of incorrect—\n(a) presentations,\n(b) classifications,\n(c) identifications, or\n(d) labellings.\n(3) This paragraph applies where an operator has contravened any of the terms or conditions of an automated classification licence.\n(4) This paragraph applies where the Scottish Ministers consider that the requirements of these Regulations are otherwise no longer met in respect of the automated classification method or the manner of its operation within the slaughterhouse.\n(5) In cases of an error on conformation or fat cover, the Scottish Ministers may ask the operator to rectify it—\n(a) on the marking of the carcase, and\n(b) in the documents concerned.\n(6) Where the Scottish Ministers make any decision in relation to an automated classification licence under this regulation which gives rise to a right of appeal under regulation 18 (appeals regarding licences), the Scottish Ministers must, in writing, within a period of 28 days beginning on the day on which the decision is made—\n(a) inform the operator of the decision,\n(b) give the reasons for the decision, and\n(c) inform the operator of the right of appeal under regulation 18 (appeals regarding licences).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2025/9780111064030/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:28:19.734928+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."
}