{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1099/article-9",
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  "legislation": "eur/2009/1099",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009 of 24 September 2009 on the protection of animals at the time of killing (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2009-1099",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Use of restraining and stunning equipment",
  "text": "1. Business operators shall ensure that all equipment used for restraining or stunning animals is maintained and checked in accordance with the manufacturers’ instructions by persons specifically trained for that purpose.\nBusiness operators shall draw up a record of maintenance. They shall keep those records for at least one year and shall make them available to the competent authority upon request.\n2. Business operators shall ensure that during stunning operations appropriate back-up equipment is immediately available on the spot and is used in the case of failure of the stunning equipment initially used. The back-up method may differ from that first used.\n3. Business operators shall ensure that animals are not placed in restraining equipment, including head restraints, until the person in charge of stunning or bleeding is ready to stun or bleed them as quickly as possible.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2009/1099/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:51:07.639589+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."
}