{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-farmed-animals-scotland-regulations-2010/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-farmed-animals-scotland-regulations-2010/schedule-2/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2010/388",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Farmed Animals (Scotland) Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-farmed-animals-scotland-regulations-2010",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Training",
  "text": "(1) A keeper must hold—\n(a) a certificate recognised by the Scottish Ministers as evidence that a keeper of chickens has completed sufficient training in the matters specified in sub-paragraph (1A);\n(b) written confirmation from the Scottish Ministers that the keeper’s experience is deemed to be equivalent to the certificate described in sub-paragraph (1)(a).\n(1A) The specified matters are—\n(a) the requirements of these Regulations;\n(b) physiology, in particular drinking and feeding needs, animal behaviour, and the concept of stress;\n(c) the practical aspects of the careful handling of chickens, and catching, loading and transport;\n(d) emergency care for chickens, emergency killing and culling; and\n(e) preventative biosecurity measures.\n(2) The Scottish Ministers must publish from time to time, in such a way as they consider appropriate, a list of certificates recognised by them for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2(1)(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Welfare (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/34), regs. 1, 5(6)(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2(1A) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Animal Welfare (EU Exit) (Scotland) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/34), regs. 1, 5(6)(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 2 in force at 5.11.2010, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2010/388/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:53:14.406577+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."
}