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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the Slaughterhouse Hygiene (Scotland) Regulations 1978 which regulate the construction, equipment and operation of slaughterhouses in order to secure the hygienic handling of meat therein.

In particular, the Regulations—

(a)

extend the 1978 Regulations to farmed deer (regulation 2(a));

(b)

make permanent a derogation from the requirement of regulation 36(6) of the 1978 Regulations to skin the heads of sheep in circumstances where the heads are not to be used for human consumption (regulation 2(b)); and

(c)

amend the regulation governing personal conduct and hygiene in slaughterhouses (regulation 2(c)).