A small-scale bovine operator is not required to classify bovine carcases.

These Regulations do not apply to a small-scale bovine operator which does not classify carcases.

But if a small-scale bovine operator chooses to classify bovine carcases, these Regulations apply in relation to that operator and the classification of those carcases.

In this regulation, “small-scale bovine operator” means an operator of an approved slaughterhouse at which fewer than 150 adult bovine animals per week as an annual average are slaughtered.

Any small-scale bovine operator who, until the coming into force of these Regulations, was required to classify bovine carcases under the 2010 Regulations shall not by that reason alone be deemed to have chosen to do so for the purposes of paragraph (3).

Nothing in this regulation prevents the application of these Regulations to an operator in relation to pig carcases if pigs are also slaughtered in that operator's slaughterhouse.