# The Welfare of Farmed Animals (Scotland) Regulations 2000, Regulation 10: Statutory welfare codes


(1) Any person who employs or engages a person to attend to animals must ensure that the person attending to the animals–
(a) is acquainted with the provisions of all relevant statutory welfare codes relating to the animals being attended to;
(b) has access to a copy of those codes while that person is attending to the animals; and
(c) has received instruction and guidance on those codes.
(2) Any person who keeps animals, or who causes or knowingly permits animals to be kept, must not attend to them unless that person has access to all relevant statutory welfare codes relating to the animals while that person is attending to them, and is acquainted with the provisions of those codes.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2000/442/regulation/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-farmed-animals-scotland-regulations-2000/regulation-10
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