Exemption for small-scale pig operators
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13.—(1) These Regulations do not apply to the operator of an approved slaughterhouse at which fewer than 500 clean pigs per week as an annual average are slaughtered.
(2) But if a small-scale pig operator chooses to classify pig carcases, these Regulations apply in relation to that operator and the classification of those carcases.
(3) Nothing in paragraph (1) prevents the application of these Regulations to an operator in relation to bovine carcases if adult bovine animals are also slaughtered in that operator’s slaughterhouse.