The Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing Regulations 2014

PART 7 Miscellaneous provisions

Notices

42.—(1) Any notice required or authorised to be served under these Regulations to any person may be given by—

(a) delivering it to the person;

(b) leaving it at the person’s proper address; or

(c) sending it by post to the person at that address.

(2) Any such notice may—

(a) in the case of a body corporate, be served on an officer of the body; or

(b) in the case of a limited liability partnership, be served on a partner or a person having the control or management of the partnership business.

(3) For the purposes of this regulation and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978(1) (service of documents by post) in its application to this regulation, the proper address of any person on whom a notice is to be served is—

(a) in the case of a body corporate, the address of the registered or principal office of the body;

(b) in the case of a limited liability partnership, the address of the registered or principal office of the partnership;

(c) in the case of a person on whom the notice is served in reliance on paragraph (2), the proper address of the body corporate or partnership in question; and

(d) in any other case, the last known address of the person in question.

(4) If a person on whom a notice is to be served under these Regulations has specified an address for service of such a notice, that address is also to be treated, for the purposes of this regulation and section 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 in its application to this regulation, as that person’s proper address.

(5) If the name or address of any occupier of premises on whom a notice is to be served under these Regulations cannot, after reasonable inquiry, be ascertained, the notice may be served by leaving it conspicuously affixed to a building or object on the premises.

(6) In this regulation—

(a) “body corporate” does not include a limited liability partnership; and

(b) references to serving include references to similar expressions (such as giving or sending).

Consequential and supplementary amendments

43.  Schedule 6 (consequential and supplementary amendments) has effect.

Transitional provision: certificates

44.  Schedule 7 (transitional provisions - certificates) has effect.

Transitional provision: slaughterhouses (layout, construction and equipment)

45.—(1) Paragraph (2) applies in relation to a slaughterhouse in operation immediately before 1st January 2013, but does not apply in relation to—

(a) any new layout or construction of such a slaughterhouse (or associated lairage) brought into operation after that date; or

(b) any new equipment used in such a slaughterhouse and brought into operation after that date.

(2) In relation to a slaughterhouse to which this paragraph applies, until 8th December 2019—

(a) Article 14(1) and Annex II do not apply; and

(b) Schedule 8 applies.

Review

46.—(1) The Secretary of State must from time to time—

(a) carry out a review of these Regulations;

(b) set out the conclusions of the review in a report; and

(c) publish the report.

(2) In carrying out the review the Secretary of State must, so far as is reasonable, have regard to how the EU Regulation is enforced in other member States.

(3) The report must in particular—

(a) set out the objectives intended to be achieved by these Regulations,

(b) assess the extent to which those objectives are achieved, and

(c) assess whether those objectives remain appropriate and, if so, the extent to which they could be achieved in a less burdensome way.

(4) The first report under these Regulations must be published before the end of the period of five years beginning with 20th May 2014.

(5) Reports under this regulation are afterwards to be published at intervals not exceeding five years.

Revocations

47.—(1) The following instruments and enactments are revoked in relation to England—

(a) the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995(2);

(b) the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) (Amendment) Regulations 1999(3); and

(c) regulation 10(3) of, and Part 3 of Schedule 8 to, the Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) (England and Wales) Regulations 2000(4).

(2) The following instruments are revoked—

(a) the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2000(5);

(b) the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2001(6);

(c) the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2003(7);

(d) the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2006(8);

(e) the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2007(9); and

(f) the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2012(10).

(1)

1978 c. 30.

(2)

S.I. 1995/731; relevant amending instruments, in relation to England, are S.I. 1999/400, 2000/656 and 3352, 2001/3830, 2003/3272, 2006/1200, 2007/402 and 2012/501.

(3)

S.I. 1999/400.

(4)

S.I. 2000/656.

(5)

S.I. 2000/3352.

(6)

S.I. 2001/3830.

(7)

S.I. 2003/3272.

(8)

S.I. 2006/1200.

(9)

S.I. 2007/402.

(10)

S.I. 2012/501.