{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-meat-inspection-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/food-meat-inspection-scotland-regulations-1988/regulation-8.json",
  "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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Dressing of casualty animals",
  "text": "(1) The body of a casualty animal shall, if it is to be dressed elsewhere than in a slaughterhouse, be so dressed—\n(a) as soon as may be after the animal has been slaughtered,\n(b) at or as near as is practicable to the place where it is slaughtered, and\n(c) as to ensure that the offal remains identifiable with the carcase of the animal or the portions into which the carcase has been divided.\n(2) If the person dressing the body of a casualty animal, or any person having the custody or control of the meat derived from any such animal, has reason to believe that there is in the meat evidence of disease, he shall not knowingly take any action which might alter or destroy that evidence.\n(3) Any person engaged in dressing the body of a casualty animal shall comply with the provisions of this regulation and the employer or other person having control of any person so engaged shall take all reasonable steps to ensure the compliance by the last mentioned person with the provisions of this regulation.",
  "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/8",
    "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."
}