{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-hygiene-and-inspection-regulations-1992/regulation-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-hygiene-and-inspection-regulations-1992/regulation-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/2037",
  "legislation_title": "The Fresh Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fresh-meat-hygiene-and-inspection-regulations-1992",
  "path": "regulation/17",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Period of time for keeping an animal in a lairage",
  "text": "(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of the Movement and Sale of Pigs Order 1975 no person shall keep or permit to be kept in any lairage for a period exceeding 72 hours any animal intended for slaughter unless—\n(a) the official veterinary surgeon gives his consent to such animal being kept in a lairage for a period exceeding 72 hours, which consent shall only be given in exceptional circumstances; and\n(b) such animal is isolated from all other animals in respect of which no such consent has been given.\n(2) In this regulation “lairage” means any covered part of a slaughterhouse used for the confinement of animals awaiting slaughter there, but does not include any field, pasture or other open lairage forming part of any slaughterhouse or otherwise.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1975/203."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/2037/regulation/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:17:04.922908+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."
}