Welfare of Animals at Slaughter Act 1991

2 Slaughtermen’s licences

(1) Section 40 of the 1974 Act (slaughtermen’s licences and applications for such licences) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)(b) (supervision conditions), there shall be added at the end “or (as the case may be) except under the supervision of a person having such qualifications as may be prescribed by the regulations”.

(3) In subsection (2) (prescribed qualifications for slaughtermen’s licences, etc.), for the words from “prescribing” to “the prescribed qualifications” there shall be substituted the words “prohibiting the grant or renewal of licences, or of licences of any class, to persons not having such qualifications as may be prescribed by the regulations”.

(4) After that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsections—

“(2A) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (2) above, the qualifications that may be prescribed under that subsection include in particular—

(a) training of any description; and

(b) the undergoing of any examination or test;

and different qualifications may be so prescribed in relation to the grant and renewal of licences or of licences of any class.

(2B) Regulations under this section may prescribe the form of a licence and the information to be contained in it.”.