{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-carcass-classification-and-price-reporting-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-carcass-classification-and-price-reporting-wales-regulations-2025/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2025/1121",
  "legislation_title": "The Sheep Carcass (Classification and Price Reporting) (Wales) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/sheep-carcass-classification-and-price-reporting-wales-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Authorisation of automated classification methods for carcasses",
  "text": "(1) The proprietor of an automated classification method may request that the Welsh Ministers authorise that method for use in regulated slaughterhouses.\n(2) The Welsh Ministers may grant a request under paragraph (1) if—\n(a) the automated classification method has been subjected to the entire authorisation test process set out in Part 1 of Schedule 2, and\n(b) analysis of the test results in accordance with Part 2 of Schedule 2 show that it has met the degree of accuracy required under that Part.\n(3) The authorisation for an automated classification method must stipulate the carcass specification and hanging presentation used in the test process for that method and require that all future use of the method under regulation 5 replicates the same carcass specification and hanging presentation.\n(4) The authorisation for an automated classification method may, in addition to the requirement under paragraph (3), be granted subject to such other terms and conditions as the Welsh Ministers consider appropriate.\n(5) The proprietor of an authorised automated classification method, or any operators using it for classification under these Regulations, must ensure to the extent they are able to do so that any requirement under paragraph (3) or (4) is met.\n(6) In this regulation, “hanging presentation” means the way that a carcass is hung from hooks and gambrels in a slaughterhouse.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2025/1121/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:56:39.013945+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."
}