{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/slaughter-of-animals-humane-conditions-regulations-1990/regulation-18",
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  "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": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Conditions to be observed in connection with the stunning and slaughter of animals",
  "text": "(1) The occupier of a slaughterhouse or knacker’s yard shall ensure that animals which have been stunned there are stuck without delay.\n(2) Any person engaged in the slaughter of animals in a slaughterhouse or in a knacker’s yard shall ensure that—\n(a) no animal is stunned unless it is possible for it to be stuck afterwards without delay;\n(b) after any animals have been stunned they are stuck without delay; and\n(c) subject to paragraph (3) below, if that person is responsible for the stunning, shackling, hoisting and sticking of any animals, or for any of those operations, such operations are carried out by him consecutively in respect of one animal before being so carried out by him in respect of another animal.\n(3) In paragraph (2)(c) above, “stunning” does not include the anaesthetising of pigs by carbon dioxide gas.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1242/regulation/18",
    "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."
}