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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Mutilations (Permitted Procedures) (England) Regulations 2007 No. 1100
2. In these Regulations—
“the Act” means the Animal Welfare Act 2006;
“cattle” means all animals of the bovine species including bison and buffalo;
“desnooding” means removal of a turkey’s snood;
“disbudding” means removal of the horn bud of cattle, goats or sheep;
“domestic fowl” means a domesticated member of the species gallus gallus;
“dubbing” means removal of the comb of a domestic fowl;
“farmed” means, in relation to an animal, bred or kept for the production of food, wool or skin or for other farming purposes;
“horses” includes ponies, asses, donkeys, jennets and mules;
“in velvet” means, in relation to the antlers of a deer, until the velvet is frayed and the greater part of it has been shed;
“laying hen” means a hen of the species gallus gallus which has reached laying maturity and is kept for production of eggs not intended for hatching;
“poultry” means domestic fowl, turkeys, geese, ducks, guinea fowl, quails, pheasants and partridges;
“prohibited procedure” means a procedure which involves interference with the sensitive tissues or bone structure of an animal, otherwise than for the purpose of its medical treatment;
“suitable instrument” means in relation to any procedure, an instrument that is in a fit state of repair and has been designed, or is of a kind commonly used, for the purpose of performing that procedure.
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