Regulation 6 Codes of Practice

(1)

A person responsible for a farmed animal—

(a)

must not attend to the animal unless he is acquainted with any relevant code of practice and has access to the code while attending to the animal; and

(b)

must take all reasonable steps to ensure that a person employed or engaged by him does not attend to the animal unless that other person—

(i)

is acquainted with any relevant code of practice;

(ii)

has access to the code while attending to the animal; and

(iii)

has received instruction and guidance on the code.

(2)

In this section, a “relevant code of practice” means a code of practice issued under section 14 of the Animal Welfare Act 2006 or a statutory welfare code issued under section 3 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968^f1 relating to the particular species of farmed animal to which a person is attending.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1968 c. 34.