{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-livestock-regulations-1994/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/welfare-of-livestock-regulations-1994/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Revocations and amendments",
  "text": "(1) The Welfare of Livestock (Intensive Units) Regulations 1978, the Welfare of Battery Hens Regulations 1987, the Welfare of Calves Regulations 1987, the Welfare of Livestock Regulations 1990 and the Welfare of Pigs Regulations 1991 are hereby revoked.\n(2) In paragraph 6 of the first Schedule of the Protection of Animals (Anaesthetics) Act 1954 for the words—\n“pig … 2 months”\nthere shall be substituted the words—\n“pig … 4 weeks”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1978/1800 as amended by S.I. 1990/1445."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/2020."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/2021."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 1990/1445."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1991/1477."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1954 c. 46; paragraph 6 was amended by the Protection of Animals (Anaesthetics) Act (Amendment) Order 1982, S.I. 1982/1626."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/2126/regulation/8",
    "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."
}