Regulation 4 Welfare Codes

(1)

Any person who employs or engages persons to attend to livestock shall ensure that the person attending to the livestock—

(a)

is acquainted with the provisions of all relevant welfare codes relating to the livestock being attended;

(b)

has access to a copy of those codes while he is attending the livestock; and

(c)

has received instruction and guidance on them.

(2)

Any person who keeps livestock, or who causes or knowingly permits livestock to be kept, shall not attend the livestock unless he has access to all welfare codes relating to that livestock while he is attending to them, and is acquainted with the provisions of those codes.

(3)

In this regulation “welfare code” means a current code issued under section 3 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968.