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The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995

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The killing of pigs by exposure to carbon dioxideE+W+S

3.—(1) Subject to paragraphs 4 to 6 below, pigs may be killed at a slaughterhouse by exposure to carbon dioxide gas mixture in a chamber provided for the purpose (hereinafter referred to as “a chamber”).

(2) For the purposes of this Part, a carbon dioxide gas mixture (hereinafter referred to as the “gas mixture”) shall mean at least 70% carbon dioxide by volume in atmospheric air.

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I1Sch. 7 para. 3 in force at 1.4.1995, see reg. 1(1)

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