{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-livestock-regulations-1994/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-livestock-regulations-1994/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2126",
  "legislation_title": "The Welfare of Livestock Regulations 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-livestock-regulations-1994",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "These Regulations, which implement—\n(a) the European Convention for the Protection of Animals kept for Farming Purposes of 10th March 1976 as read with the Protocol of Amendment to the European Convention for the Protection of Animals kept for Farming Purposes of 6th February 1992;\n(b) Council Directive 88/166/EEC laying down minimum standards for the protection of laying hens kept in battery cages;\n(c) Council Directive 91/629/EEC laying down minimum standards for the protection of calves;\n(d) Council Directive 91/630/EEC laying down minimum standards for the protection of pigs;\nmay be cited as the Welfare of Livestock Regulations 1994 and shall come into force on the fourteenth day after the day on which they are made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ No. L74, 19.3.88, p.83."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ No. L340, 11.12.91, p.28."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ No. L340, 11.12.91, p.33."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2126/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:27:41.340125+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."
}