1.—(1) A person may carry out an operation specified in sub-paragraph (2) on a category of animal in a slaughterhouse without holding a certificate registered with the competent authority or temporary certificate if that person was engaged in carrying out that operation on that category of animal immediately before 1st January 2013.
(2) The operations referred to in sub-paragraph (1) are—
(a)the handling and care of animals before they are restrained;
(b)the killing of an animal by means of a free bullet in the field; and
(c)the shackling of poultry before stunning.
(3) Sub-paragraph (1) ceases to apply on the date on which the competent authority grants and registers (or refuses to grant) a certificate or temporary certificate to that person in relation to that operation on that category of animal, or on 8th December 2015, whichever is the earlier.