Disease Control (Interim Measures) (England) (No. 2) Order 2003

Restrictions on movements to and from slaughterhouses

5.  No person shall—

(a)move any animal to a slaughterhouse save for the purpose of slaughter within 48 hours of its arrival there; or

(b)receive any animal from a slaughterhouse unless, in the case of any animal other than a pig, under the authority of a licence issued by a veterinary inspector.