{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-slaughter-or-killing-regulations-1995/schedule-7A/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-slaughter-or-killing-regulations-1995/schedule-7A/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/731",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-slaughter-or-killing-regulations-1995",
  "path": "schedule/7A/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Schedule–\n“bird” means any domestic fowl, turkey, pheasant, quail, partridge, goose, duck or guinea fowl;\n“bird shed” means a building designed and constructed to house birds that has been sealed so as to be capable of containing the gas mixture specified in combination 1 in the table in Part V;\n“breeder hen” means a domestic fowl which has reached laying maturity and is kept for production of eggs intended for hatching;\n“chamber” means a bird shed or gas container in which birds are killed by exposure to a gas mixture;\n“end of lay hen” means a laying hen no longer required for the production of eggs;\n“end of life breeder hen” means a breeder hen no longer required for the production of hatching eggs;\n“gas container” means a receptacle capable of containing the gas mixtures specified in combinations 2 or 3 in the table in Part V which meets the requirements specified in paragraph 5;\n“gas mixture” means any of the mixtures of gases specified in the second column of the table in Part V; and\n“laying hen” means a domestic fowl which has reached laying maturity and is kept for production of eggs not intended for hatching.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 7A inserted (S.) (6.4.2007) by The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2007 (S.S.I. 2007/150), regs. 1(1), 2(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/731/schedule/7A/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:13:13.652673+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."
}