Transitional provision: slaughterhouses (layout, construction and equipment)
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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.