Regulation 16 Period of time for keeping an animal in a lairage and removal of an animal from a slaughterhouse
No person shall keep or permit to be kept in any lairage for a period exceeding 72 hours any animal intended for slaughter unless—
the OVS gives his consent to it being kept in a lairage for a period exceeding 72 hours, which consent shall only be given in exceptional circumstances; and
it is isolated from animals in respect of which no such consent has been given.
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.
No person shall, unless directed by an OVS or a veterinary officer, remove from a slaughterhouse an animal intended for slaughter if it is intended that meat from it shall be sold for human consumption.