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Paragraph 8 Arrival at premises of destination

United Kingdom

(1)

This paragraph applies to elephants and to cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and all other animals of the taxa Artiodactyla, and their crossbreeds.

(2)

Animals intended for immediate slaughter must be conveyed without delay from the F1border control post to the slaughterhouse of destination and slaughtered within five working days.

(3)

In any other case the animals must be taken without delay from the border control post to the holding of destination and kept there for at least 30 days (unless consigned from the holding direct to a slaughterhouse).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Sch. 2 para. 8 substituted (10.2.2025) by The Official Controls (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/102), regs. 1(1)(b), 38(12)

Notes on Schedule 2

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 2 shoulder note substituted (31.12.2020) by The Import of, and Trade in, Animals and Animal Products (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1462), regs. 1(3), 31(a)