{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/slaughter-of-poultry-licences-and-specified-qualifications-regulations-1991/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/slaughter-of-poultry-licences-and-specified-qualifications-regulations-1991/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1676",
  "legislation_title": "The Slaughter of Poultry (Licences and Specified Qualifications) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/slaughter-of-poultry-licences-and-specified-qualifications-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Licences",
  "text": "(1) Where a local authority receives an application from a person for the grant of a licence authorising him to slaughter a bird or to stun a bird prior to slaughter, the local authority shall grant a licence if–\n(a) the application is accompanied by–\n(i) such a certificate as is described in Schedule 1, or\n(ii) where the licence will authorise the slaughter of a bird only by the Jewish method, a licence issued to the applicant for that purpose by the Rabbinical Commission in England and Wales or by the Chief Rabbi in Scotland;\n(b) the applicant is in the opinion of the local authority a fit and proper person to hold a licence;\n(c) the applicant is not below the age of 18 years; and\n(d) the applicant provides the information required in paragraph (2) below.\n(2) Any person applying to a local authority for a licence shall in his application state–\n(a) whether he holds or has held a licence granted by any other (and, if so, which) local authority;\n(b) whether he has been refused a licence or had a licence revoked or suspended by any other (and, if so, which) local authority; and\n(c) whether he has any similar application pending before any other (and, if so, which) local authority.\n(3) A licence granted under this regulation shall remain in force for such period not exceeding 4 years as may be specified in the licence.\n(4) A local authority shall not renew such a licence unless in its opinion the applicant remains a fit and proper person to hold a licence.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1676/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:40:56.574208+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."
}