# The Slaughter of Animals (Humane Conditions) Regulations 1990, Regulation 9: Conditions to be observed in connection with the confinement and treatment of animals awaiting slaughter


(1) The occupier of a lairage shall ensure that within the lairage—
(a) animals of one species are kept in separate pens from animals of another species;
(b) fractious animals are kept in separate pens from other animals and separate from each other; and
(c) horned cattle are kept apart from each other and from other cattle (except that they need not be kept apart from horned or other cattle with which they have been reared).
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(b) above “fractious animals” are animals which are likely to injure other animals.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1242/regulation/9 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/slaughter-of-animals-humane-conditions-regulations-1990/regulation-9
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