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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-of-farmed-animals-england-regulations-2007/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-of-farmed-animals-england-regulations-2007/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2007/9780110773612",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Farmed Animals (England) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-welfare-of-farmed-animals-england-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Codes of Practice",
  "text": "(1) A person responsible for a farmed animal—\n(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\n(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—\n(i) is acquainted with any relevant code of practice;\n(ii) has access to the code while attending to the animal; and\n(iii) has received instruction and guidance on the code.\n(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 relating to the particular species of farmed animal to which a person is attending.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 34."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2007/9780110773612/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:17:52.016591+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."
}