SCHEDULE 3CONSTRUCTION, LAYOUT AND EQUIPMENT OF CUTTING PREMISES (EXCEPT LOW THROUGHPUT CUTTING PREMISES) – ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

Regulations 4(2)(a), 8(1)(d)

1.

In addition to the general requirements contained in Schedule 1, cutting premises shall have—

(a)

chilling or refrigerating rooms large enough for meat preservation;

(b)

a room for cutting up, boning and wrapping and, in so far as this operation is carried out in those cutting premises, a room for the evisceration of birds referred to in paragraph 4 of Part I of Schedule 9;

(c)

a room for packaging operations, where such operations are carried out in those cutting premises, unless the conditions provided for in paragraph 5 of Schedule 13 are fulfilled.