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30.—(1) Part II (requirements applicable to slaughterhouses and knackers’ yards) of, and Schedules 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 to, the 1995 Regulations cease to have effect in relation to slaughterhouses (within the meaning of regulation 2(1) of the 1995 Regulations).
(2) The 1995 Regulations are amended as follows—
(a)revoke regulation 4 (humane treatment of animals);
(b)revoke regulation 6(1)(d) (animal welfare legislation and codes);
(c)revoke regulation 22 (exemption for slaughter by a religious method);
(d)revoke Schedule 1 (the licensing of slaughtermen);
(e)in Schedule 2, revoke paragraph 1(a) (general requirements for all slaughterhouses and knackers’ yards);
(f)in Schedule 4, revoke paragraph 4 (restraint of animals before stunning, slaughter or killing);
(g)in Schedule 9, in paragraph 2(d) (permitted methods of slaughtering or killing animals for the purpose of disease control) omit “rabbits and”; and
(h)in Schedule 12, revoke paragraph 8 (prohibition against slaughter by a religious method elsewhere than in a slaughterhouse).
(3) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2), a registered licence required by, or granted in accordance with, paragraph 5 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Regulations which is still in force immediately before 1st January 2013 continues in existence for the purpose of recognition as a qualification equivalent to a certificate in accordance with Article 21(7).
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