{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-slaughter-or-killing-regulations-1995/schedule-7A/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-animals-slaughter-or-killing-regulations-1995/schedule-7A/paragraph-7.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/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Birds may only be killed by exposure to gas mixtures elsewhere than in a slaughterhouse in accordance with the combinations of gas mixtures and chamber specified in the table below.\nCombination table\nGas mixture\nChamber\nCombination 1\nCarbon dioxide in a concentration of not less than 45% carbon dioxide by volume in atmospheric air.\nbird shed\nCombination 2\nCarbon dioxide in a concentration of not less than 45% carbon dioxide by volume in atmospheric air.\ngas container\nCombination 3\nAny mixture of argon and carbon dioxide, or other inert gas and carbon dioxide, in atmospheric air where–\n(a)the concentration of the argon, or the other inert gas, does not exceed 80% by volume;\n(b)the concentration of carbon dioxide does not exceed 20% by volume; and\n(c)the final concentration of oxygen does not exceed 5% by volume.\ngas container",
  "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/7",
    "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."
}