{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-official-controls-charges-wales-regulations-2005/schedule-2/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-official-controls-charges-wales-regulations-2005/schedule-2/paragraph-3.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2005/3370",
  "legislation_title": "The Meat (Official Controls) (Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/meat-official-controls-charges-wales-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "The official controls charge",
  "text": "The official controls charge payable by the operator of a slaughterhouse, game-handling establishment or cutting plant for any accounting period will not be lower than 45% of the standard charge incurred in relation to those premises for that period.\nSpecies\nType\nRate per type of animal in Euros\nBovines\nbovine animals aged 6 weeks or more at slaughter\n4.5\nbovine animals aged less than 6 weeks old at slaughter\n2.5\nEquidae and other solipeds\n4.4\nPigs including wild boar\ncarcase weight less than 25 kg\n0.5\ncarcase weight greater than or equal to 25 kg\n1.3\nSheep, goats and other ruminants not listed elsewhere in this Table\ncarcase weight less than 12 kg\n0.175\ncarcase weight between 12 and 18 kg inclusive\n0.35\ncarcase weight greater than 18 kg\n0.5\nPoultry, rabbits, small game birds and ground game\nall broilers; all cast hens; other poultry, rabbits, small game birds and ground game weighing less than 2 kg\n0.01\npoultry (not being broilers or cast hens), rabbits, small game birds and ground game weighing at least 2 kg (except those which are adult and weigh at least 5 kg)\n0.02\npoultry (not being broilers or cast hens), rabbits, small game birds and ground game (all being adult) and weighing at least 5 kg\n0.04\nOstriches and other ratites\n1.3\nLand mammals and birds of a type not mentioned above\n1.3",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3 in force at 1.1.2006, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/3370/schedule/2/paragraph/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:04:55.560315+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."
}