PART 8MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Consequential amendments
35. Schedule 6 (consequential amendments) has effect.
Transitional provisions: certificates
36. Schedule 7 (transitional provisions: certificates) has effect.
Transitional provisions: slaughterhouses
37.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies in relation to a slaughterhouse in operation immediately before 1st January 2013, but does not apply in relation to—
(a)any new layout or construction of such a slaughterhouse (or associated lairage) brought into operation after that date; or
(b)any new equipment used in such a slaughterhouse and brought into operation after that date.
(2) In relation to a slaughterhouse to which this paragraph applies, until 8th December 2019—
(a)Article 14(1) and Annex II do not apply; and
(b)Schedule 8 applies.
Review
38.—(1) The Department may from time to time—
(a)carry out a review of these Regulations;
(b)set out the conclusions of the review in a report; and
(c)publish the report.
(2) In carrying out a review the Department must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how the EU Regulation is enforced in other member States.
(3) The report must in particular—
(a)set out the objectives intended to be achieved by these Regulations;
(b)assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved; and
(c)assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved in a less burdensome way.
Revocations
39. The instruments mentioned in columns 1 and 2 of Schedule 9 (revocations) are revoked to the extent specified in column 3 of that Schedule.