# The Food (Meat Inspection) (Scotland) Regulations 1988, Regulation 16: Payment of charges


Any charge made by a local authority by virtue of the last foregoing regulation shall be payable—
(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;
(b) in respect of any animal slaughtered in a public slaughterhouse, by the person on whose behalf the animal is slaughtered;
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1484/regulation/16 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/food-meat-inspection-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-16
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