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Regulation 7 Prohibition on the slaughter at a slaughterhouse or a farmed game handling facility of an animal not intended for human consumption

Original text. Later amendments are not shown.

(1)

Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) below, no person shall use any slaughterhouse or farmed game handling facility, or cause any such premises so to be used, for the slaughter of any animal not intended for human consumption or the dressing of the carcase of any such animal.

(2)

Paragraph (1) above shall not apply in respect of the use of a slaughterhouse for the slaughter of an animal not intended for human consumption—

(a)

where the animal has incurred an injury whilst in transit necessitating its slaughter; or

(b)

by reason of the provisions of regulation 21 of the Slaughter of Animals (Humane Conditions) Regulations 1990f1 or regulation 11 of the Slaughter of Animals (Humane Conditions) (Scotland) Regulations 1990f2.

(3)

Paragraph (1) above shall not apply in respect of the use of a slaughterhouse for the slaughter of such an animal referred to in paragraph (2) above if—

(a)

the animal is slaughtered in a different room or at a different time from any animal intended to be slaughtered for human consumption; and

(b)

appropriate steps are taken to prevent the contamination of fresh meat in the slaughterhouse.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

S.I. 1990/1242.

f2

S.I. 1990/1240.