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Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972

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6Repeal and amendment of enactments relating to slaughterhouses in Scotland

(1)For section 7 of the [1954 c. 42.] Slaughterhouses Act 1954 (duty of local authorities in Scotland in regard to slaughtering facilities) there shall be substituted the following section:—

7Power of local authorities to provide slaughterhouses.

Subject to the following provisions of this Part of this Act, a local authority may provide and, if they think fit, operate a slaughterhouse, and may dispose of any slaughterhouse belonging to them by feu, sale, lease or excambion; and any slaughterhouse so disposed of shall be deemed to be disposed of under Part VIII of the [1947 c. 43.] Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947.

(2)In section 9 of the said Act of 1954 (registration in respect of private slaughterhouses in Scotland), in subsection (3) for the word " may " there shall be substituted the word " shall ".

(3)Part II of the said Act of 1954 (provisions relating to Scotland) shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in Schedule 1 to this Act (being amendments consequential on the foregoing provisions of this section, or of a minor nature).

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