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Regulation 14 The slaughter of animals elsewhere than in a slaughterhouse or knacker’s yardF1I1

England, Wales and Scotland

Subject to regulations 16 and 17, where any soliped, ruminant, pig, rabbit or bird is slaughtered elsewhere than in a slaughterhouse or knacker’s yard, that animal shall be—

(a)

restrained in accordance with Schedule 4;

(b)

F2... stunned before slaughter in accordance with Parts I and II of Schedule 5; and

(c)

bled or pithed in accordance with Schedule 6.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Regulations revoked (W.) (20.5.2014) by The Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (Wales) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/951), regs. 1(c), 46(a); and revoked (E.) (5.11.2015) by The Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing (England) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/1782), regs. 1(4), 47(a)

F2

Words in reg. 14(b) omitted (16.3.1999) by virtue of The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/400), regs. 1, 2(2)

Commencement

I1

Reg. 14 in force at 1.4.1995, see reg. 1(1)