{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-livestock-prohibited-operations-amendment-regulations-1987/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-livestock-prohibited-operations-amendment-regulations-1987/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/114",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Livestock (Prohibited Operations) (Amendment) Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-livestock-prohibited-operations-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment",
  "text": "The Welfare of Livestock (Prohibited Operations) Regulations 1982 shall be amended as follows:—\n(a) after regulation 3 (prohibited Operations) there shall be inserted the following regulation—\n“3A Subject to the provisions of regulation 4(a) no person shall perform, or cause or permit to be performed, the following operation in relation to sheep for the time being situated on agricultural land, namely tooth grinding of sheep.”; and\n(b) for paragraph (a) of regulation 4 (exemptions) there shall be substituted the following paragraph—\n“(a) any act lawfully done under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1982/1884."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1986 c. 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/114/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:33:33.106836+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."
}