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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-meat-inspection-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1988/1484",
  "legislation_title": "The Food (Meat Inspection) (Scotland) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-meat-inspection-scotland-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Payment of charges",
  "text": "Any charge made by a local authority by virtue of the last foregoing regulation shall be payable—\n(a) in respect of any animal slaughtered in a private slaughterhouse, by the person registered under section 4 of the Slaughter of Animals (Scotland) Act 1980 to use the said slaughterhouse;\n(b) in respect of any animal slaughtered in a public slaughterhouse, by the person on whose behalf the animal is slaughtered;\n(c) in any other case, by the person who brings the body of the animal or, where the body has been dressed, the meat, into a slaughterhouse in accordance with the provisions of regulation 9.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1484/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:00:15.050606+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."
}