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Section 1 Enlargement of classes of operations in which anaesthetics must be used.

(1)

Schedule 1 to the M1Protection of Animals (Anaesthetics) Act1954 (which lists operations which may be performed without ananaeesthetic) shall be amended as follows.

(2)

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C1(3)

For paragraph 6 (castration of horses, asses or mules, bulls, sheep,goats and pigs below certain ages) there shall be substituted thefollowing paragraphs—

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6

The castration of a male animal specified in the following tablebefore it has reached the age so specified, that is to say—

bull...3 months
sheep...3 months
goat...2 months
pig...2 months

6A

The foregoing paragraph shall not apply to the castration of an animalby using a rubber ring or other device to constrict the flow of bloodto the scrotum unless the device is applied within the first week oflife.”

(4)

Paragraphs 7 and 8 (minor operations which are customarily performed without an anaesthetic) shall not in any circumstances permit—

(a)

the castration of a male animal (but without prejudice to the circumstances in which castration is permitted by paragraph 6 of the Schedule as set out in subsection (3) of this section);

(b)

the de-horning of cattle;

(c)

the dis-budding of calves, except by means of chemical cauterisation applied within the first week of life; or

(d)

the docking of lambs’ tails by using a rubber ring or other device to constrict the flow of blood to the tail, unless the device is applied within the first week of life.

(5)

In this section “cattle” means bulls, cows, bullocks, heifers, calves, steers or oxen.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

S. 1(2) repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974 (c. 22), Sch. Pt. XI

Marginal citations

M1

1954 c. 46.

Modifications

C1

The text of S. 1(3) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1

Act repealed (E.W.) (27.3.2007 for W., 6.4.2007 for E.) by Animal Welfare Act 2006 (c. 45), s. 68(3), Sch. 4 (with ss. 1(2), 58(1), 59, 60); S.I. 2007/499, art. 2(2)(m); S.I. 2007/1030, art. 2(1)(m)