# Welfare of Animals (Scheduled Operations) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003

S.R. 2003/380 · made 14 August 2003

This Order further amends Schedule 1 to the Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 1972. The effect of the amendment is to reduce the age beyond which castration of pigs may not be performed without anaesthetic from 4 weeks to 7 days in order to implement the requirement of paragraph 8 of chapter 1 of Annexe 1 to Commission Directive 2001/93/EC (O.J. No. L316, 1.12.2001, p. 36).

Made under: Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 (Section 14)

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## Introductory text

WELFARE OF ANIMALS
Made 14th August 2003
To be laid before Parliament under paragraph 7(3) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000
Coming into operation 29th September 2003
The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 14(3) of the Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

## 1 Citation and commencement

This Order may be cited as the Welfare of Animals (Scheduled Operations) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2003 and shall come into operation on 29th September 2003.

## 2 Amendment of the Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 1972

In Schedule 1 to the Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 1972 (Operations which may be performed without an anaesthetic) for paragraph 7(ii)(b) there shall be substituted –
“(b) in the case of a pig, before the age of eight days; and”.

## Signature

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 14th August 2003.
L.S.
D. Small
A senior officer of the
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order.)
This Order further amends Schedule 1 to the Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 1972. The effect of the amendment is to reduce the age beyond which castration of pigs may not be performed without anaesthetic from 4 weeks to 7 days in order to implement the requirement of paragraph 8 of chapter 1 of Annexe 1 to Commission Directive 2001/93/EC (O.J. No. L316, 1.12.2001, p. 36).

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