{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/slaughter-of-animals-humane-conditions-regulations-1990/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/slaughter-of-animals-humane-conditions-regulations-1990/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1242",
  "legislation_title": "The Slaughter of Animals (Humane Conditions) Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/slaughter-of-animals-humane-conditions-regulations-1990",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "ANIMALS\nMade 13th June 1990\nLaid before Parliament 14th June 1990\nComing into force\nregulation 14(b)(ii) 5th July 1992\nremainder 5th July 1990\nThe Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in relation to England, and the Secretary of State, in relation to Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 38, 40(1)(b) and 45 of the Slaughterhouses Act 1974 and now vested in them, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation with such organisations as appear to them to represent the interests concerned in accordance with subsection (1) of the said section 38, hereby make the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 3; section 38(5) was amended by sections 40(5) and 46(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1982 (c. 48) and section 45 contains a definition of “the Minister” relevant to the exercise of the statutory powers under which these Regulations are made."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "In the case of the Secretary of State, by virtue of S.I. 1978/272."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1242/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:19:09.533875+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."
}