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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-slaughter-or-killing-amendment-scotland-regulations-2002/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2002/238",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-slaughter-or-killing-amendment-scotland-regulations-2002",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995 (“the principal Regulations”) which gave effect to Council Directive 93/119/EC on the protection of animals at the time of slaughter or killing (O.J. No. L 340, 31.12.93, p.21). These Regulations substitute a new paragraph 7(2) of Schedule 7 to the principal Regulations, so as to permit a new gas mixture for killing birds at the slaughterhouse. They also make consequential amendments to paragraphs 8 and 10 of that Schedule.\nNo Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared in relation to these Regulations.\nThese Regulations extend to Scotland only.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2002/238/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:41:15.596812+00:00"
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  "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."
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