{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-slaughter-or-killing-amendment-scotland-regulations-2004/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-slaughter-or-killing-amendment-scotland-regulations-2004/note.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2004/13",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-slaughter-or-killing-amendment-scotland-regulations-2004",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "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 (O.J. No. L 340, 31.12.93, p.21). These Regulations amend Schedules 1, 4 and 9 to the principal Regulations.\nThe amendment to Schedule 1 requires the holder of a licence which has been suspended or revoked to surrender the licence to the Food Standards Agency (regulation 2(2)).\nThe amendment to Schedule 4 shortens the time that birds can be suspended before being stunned or killed (regulation 2(3)). This measure does not come into force until 6th January 2005 (regulation 1(1)(a)).\nThe amendment to Schedule 9 permits the use of pneumatic or cartridge operated percussive devices producing immediate death for the slaughter or killing of birds for the purpose of disease control (regulation 2(4)).\nThese Regulations extend to Scotland only.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/13/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:33:24.815791+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."
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