SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 9 Slaughterhouses and Knackers’ Yards: Uniting of Enforcement Functions

Powers to transfer enforcement functions to agriculture Ministers

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This paragraph applies to the following provisions of M1 the Slaughter of Poultry Act 1967—

a

section 3 (power to make regulations for securing humane conditions of slaughter),

b

section 4 (power to authorise persons to exercise rights of entry), and

c

section 6 (duty to execute and enforce the provisions of that Act and of regulations under section 3 of that Act).

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The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Secretary of State for Wales acting jointly may by regulations provide for any functions under a provision to which this paragraph applies, so far as exercisable by local authorities, to be transferred—

a

so far as exercisable by local authorities in England, to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and

b

so far as exercisable by local authorities in Scotland or Wales, to the Secretary of State.