UKPGA-1991-30 — Welfare of Animals at Slaughter Act 1991

preamble

Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

s. 1 — Regulations under section 38 of the 1974 Act and section 9 of the 1980 Act.

In section 38 of the 1974 Act (regulations for securing humane conditions of slaughter in slaughterhouses and knackers’ yards) the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (5)—; and in section 9 of the 1980 Act (the corresponding Scottish provision) the same subsection shall be added as subsection (4).

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s. 4 — Execution and enforcement of provisions with respect to slaughter of animals.

s. 4(1)

The existing provisions of section 41 of the 1974 Act (which impose on every local authority a duty to execute and enforce in their district the provisions of Part II of that Act and any regulations made under it) shall become subsection (1), and the following subsections shall be added at the end—.

s. 4(2)

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s. 5 — Codes of practice.

s. 5(1)

The following section shall be inserted in the 1974 Act after section 41—.

s. 5(2)

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s. 6 — Interpretation.

In this Act—“the 1974 Act” means the Slaughterhouses Act 1974; and“the 1980 Act” means the Slaughter of Animals (Scotland) Act 1980.

s. 7 — Short title, commencement and extent.

s. 7(1)

This Act may be cited as the Welfare of Animals at Slaughter Act 1991.

s. 7(2)

This Act shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the date on which it is passed.

s. 7(3)

This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.