Regulation 19 Conditions on the admission of dead or slaughtered animals
No person shall bring into, or permit to be brought into, or to remain in, a slaughterhouse the body of an animal which has died unless it died in transit to the slaughterhouse and is removed from the slaughterhouse immediately following the carrying out of any necessary examination performed under the Animal Health Act 1981.
No person shall bring into, or permit to be brought into, a slaughterhouse the slaughtered body of an animal, unless—
it has been bled;
the animal has undergone an ante-mortem inspection by a veterinary surgeon in accordance with paragraphs 3 to 5 of Schedule 8;
the animal has been slaughtered as a result of an accident or because it is suffering from a serious physiological or functional disorder;
the body of the animal has not been dressed;
the body of the animal is accompanied to the slaughterhouse by the veterinary certificate referred to in Schedule 19, to be handed on arrival at the slaughterhouse to an inspector or official veterinary surgeon; and
the body of the animal is transported to the slaughterhouse in a container or vehicle under hygienic conditions and, if it cannot be delivered to the slaughterhouse within one hour of slaughter, it is transported there in a container or vehicle under hygienic conditions in which the ambient tempera ture is between 0°C and +4°C.
Paragraph (2) above shall not apply to the slaughtered and bled body of farmed game which comes from a farmed game handling facility in accordance with Part I of Schedule 6.