Source: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/107/made
Timestamp: 2020-01-22 05:21:48
Document Index: 347209860

Matched Legal Cases: ['ART 2', 'art 5', 'art 2', 'ART 1', 'art 2', 'art 2', 'art 3', 'art 4', 'art 5', 'art 6', 'art 7', 'art 8', 'art 7']

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Union and makes these Regulations in exercise of those powers and paragraph 1A of Schedule 2 to that Act.
To the extent these Regulations make provision for a purpose mentioned in section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, it appears to the Department that it is expedient for the references in these Regulations to the Annexes to Council Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009 of 24 September 2009 on the protection of animals at the time of killing(3) to be construed as references to those Annexes as amended from time to time.
“the 1996 Regulations” means the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996(4);
“EU Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009 of 24 September 2009 on the protection of animals at the time of killing(5);
a certificate granted by a body, recognised and regulated by the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual)(6) which oversees the training and assessment of persons carrying out the killing of animals and related operations, confirming the passing of an independent examination as provided for in Article 21;
a formal veterinary qualification, as recognised by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS)(7), and RCVS continuing professional development record combined;
“inspector” means an inspector appointed under regulation 27 or an inspector appointed under section 45 of the Welfare of Animals Act (Northern Ireland) 2011(8);
“veterinary surgeon” means a person registered in the register of veterinary surgeons under section 2 of the Veterinary Surgeons Act 1966(9); and
“WASK licence” means a registered licence required by or granted in accordance with Schedule 1 to the 1996 Regulations or Schedule 1 to the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1995(10).
(5) The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954(11), except section 20(2) and (3), shall apply to these Regulations as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.
34.—(1) Notwithstanding anything in Article 19(1) of the Magistrates’ Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(12), a Magistrates’ Court may hear and determine a complaint relating to an offence under these Regulations if the complaint is made—
PART 2LAYOUT, CONSTRUCTION AND EQUIPMENT
5. The business operator shall ensure that—
6. The business operator shall ensure that a field lairage—
7. The business operator shall ensure that there is ready access to any shackle line or processing equipment used for live poultry and to any controls of such equipment.
8. The business operator shall ensure that a stunning pen used to restrain adult bovine animals for the purpose of stunning is constructed so as to—
23.—(1) The business operator and any person engaged in the stunning or killing of an animal shall ensure that any instrument, restraining equipment, installation or other equipment which is used for stunning or killing is used in such a way as to facilitate rapid and effective stunning or killing.
(2) No person may simple stun an animal unless it is possible to kill it without delay.
(a)subject to sub-paragraph (3), the device is positioned and applied so as to ensure that the projectile enters the cerebral cortex; and
29.—(1) The business operator and any person engaged in the stunning of pigs by exposure to gas must ensure that—
(c)the gas stunner is equipped to maintain the gas concentration, as appropriate, in the gas stunner (in accordance with Table 3 Chapter I of Annex I);
(g)no pig enters the gas stunner at any time when the visible and audible warning signals have been activated or when there is any defect in the operation of the gas stunner.
(2) The business operator and any person engaged in the stunning of pigs by direct exposure to gas mixture 1 (“carbon dioxide at high concentration”) in Table 3 of Chapter I of Annex I must ensure that—
(2) No person may stun poultry by exposure to a gas mixture unless except in accordance with Table 3 Chapter I of Annex I.
(a)the gas stunner is equipped to maintain the gas concentration, as appropriate, in the gas stunner (in accordance with Table 3 Chapter I of Annex I and this Schedule);
(b)no poultry enters the gas stunner if the displayed gas concentration is not at the required level in accordance with Table 3 Chapter I of Annex I and this Schedule;
(f)no poultry enters the gas stunner at any time when the visible and audible warning signals have been activated or when there is any defect in the operation of the gas stunner; and
(g)no poultry are shackled before they are dead.
(2) A person engaged in the bleeding of an animal that has been simple stunned must ensure that the bleeding is—
(d)in the case of sheep, goats, pigs or deer, a period of not less than 20 seconds.
(4) Sub-paragraph (3) does not apply to an animal which has been pithed or any bird which has been decapitated after simple stunning.
Killing of horses
(b)in a room or bay in which there are the remains of a horse or other animals; or
(a)the killing of animals in a killing establishment;
(2) But in the case of animals killed in the circumstances mentioned in subparagraphs (1)(b) and (c)—
(b)the killing of an animal for the purpose of disease control unless it is stunned by penetrative captive bolt or electrocution in which case it must be stunned in accordance with paragraphs 33, 36 or 37 of Part 5 (as the case may be);
(d)the killing of surplus chicks which are less than 72 hours old or embryos in hatchery waste provided that paragraph 43 is complied with.
(2) In this paragraph, “disease control” means the control by the competent authority of any disease which is notifiable by or under the provisions of the Diseases of Animals (Northern Ireland) Order 1981(13) or in pursuance of any EU obligation.
6. The business operator shall ensure that—
7. The business operator shall ensure that a field lairage—
(e)is provided with drinking facilities and, if necessary, with racks, mangers or other equipment adequate in number and size for the watering and feeding of all animals confined in the field lairage, fixed where practicable, and so constructed and placed that they are easily accessible to all the animals, can readily be filled and cannot readily be fouled.
9. The business operator shall ensure that a stunning pen used to restrain adult bovine animals for the purpose of stunning is constructed so as to—
10. Where a killing establishment is one in which horses are killed, the business operator shall ensure that—
13. The business operator and any person engaged in the movement or lairaging of animals shall ensure that—
(a)any animal which has experienced pain or suffering during transport or following its arrival; and
(b)any animal which is too young to take solid feed
is killed immediately.
14. The business operator and any person engaged in the movement or lairaging of animals shall ensure that an animal which is unable to walk is not dragged to its place of killing but is killed where it lies.
15. The business operator and any person engaged in the movement or lairaging of animals which are delivered other than in a container shall ensure that—
(d)no animal is taken to the place of killing unless it can be stunned or killed without delay.
18. The business operator and any person engaged in the movement of animals shall ensure that every animal is moved with care and, when necessary, that animals are led individually.
20. No person may use an instrument which administers an electric shock to make an animal move, except that such an instrument which has been designed for the purpose of making an animal move may be used on bovine animals and pigs which refuse to move, provided that—
22. The business operator and any person engaged in the lairaging of an animal shall ensure that—
23. The business operator and any person engaged in the movement of animals delivered in containers shall ensure that—
24. The business operator and any person engaged in the movement or handling of animals delivered in containers shall ensure that—
25. No person may stun or kill an animal without restraining it in an appropriate manner.
26. Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph 25, no person may stun a bovine animal in a killing establishment unless at the time it is stunned—
(a)it is confined in a stunning facility which is in good working order; or
27. No person may use electrical stunning or killing equipment or any other instrument which applies an electric current to an animal—
28. No person may tie the legs of an animal.
30.—(1) No person may operate a shackle line unless—
32.—(1) The business operator and any person engaged in the stunning or killing of an animal shall ensure that any instrument, restraining equipment, installation or other equipment which is used for stunning or killing is used in such a way as to facilitate rapid and effective stunning or killing.
33.—(1) No person may use a penetrative captive bolt device to stun an animal unless—
34. No person may stun an animal using a non-penetrative captive bolt except by an instrument which is applied in the proper position and which is used with the correct strength of cartridge or other propellant in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions to produce an effective stun.
37. No person may use a waterbath stunner to stun poultry unless—
38.—(1) No person may stun an animal outside a slaughterhouse by exposure to gas.
(2) The prohibition in sub-paragraph (1) does not apply to the stunning of—
(a)pigs in a killing establishment; or
provided that the pigs or poultry are stunned in accordance with paragraphs 39 or 40 as appropriate.
39.—(1) No person may stun pigs by exposure to gas unless each pig is exposed to the gas for long enough to ensure it is killed.
(h)no pig enters the gas stunner at any time when the visible and audible warning signals have been activated or when there is any defect in the operation of the gas stunner.
40.—(1) No person may stun poultry by exposure to gas unless—
(ii)the owner of the poultry gives prior written notice to the competent authority, not less than five working days from the date on which the stunning takes place.
(2) No person may stun poultry by exposure to gas except in accordance with Table 3 Chapter I of Annex I.
(ii)give clearly visible and/or audible warning signals if the gas concentration falls below the required level (in accordance with Table 3 of Chapter I of Annex I);
(g)no poultry enter the gas stunner at any time when the visible and audible warning signals have been activated or when there is any defect in the operation of the gas stunner;
(5) In sub-paragraph (4), “poultry shed” means a building designed and constructed to house poultry that has been previously sealed so as to be capable of containing the gas mixtures in Table 3 of Chapter I of Annex I.
41.—(1) A person engaged in the bleeding or pithing of an animal which has been simple stunned shall ensure that the animal is bled or pithed without delay after it has been simple stunned.
(2) A person engaged in the bleeding of an animal which has been simple stunned shall ensure that the bleeding is—
(5) Where one person is responsible for the simple stunning and pithing, or for the simple stunning, shackling, hoisting and bleeding, of animals other than birds or rabbits or for some of those operations, such operations shall be carried out by him consecutively in respect of one animal before being so carried out by that person in respect of another animal.
(6) Where one person is responsible for the simple stunning and bleeding of birds or rabbits, those operations shall be carried out by that person consecutively in respect of one bird or rabbit before being so carried out by that person in respect of another bird or rabbit.
42. No person may kill a horse in a killing establishment—
43.—(1) No person may kill surplus chicks which are less than 72 hours old in hatchery waste except by one of the following methods—
Regulation 23(1)(f)
Article 9(1) Maintenance of restraining or stunning equipment.
Article 17 (1) to (5) Animal Welfare Officer.
1.—(1) The Firearms (Northern Ireland) Order 2004(14) is amended as follows—
(2) In article 2(2) (interpretation), for the definition of “slaughtering instrument” substitute—
““slaughtering instrument” means a firearm which is specially designed or adapted for the instantaneous slaughter or killing of animals or for the instantaneous stunning of animals with a view to slaughtering or killing them;”.
(3) In Schedule 1, paragraph 3 (slaughter of animals)—
(a)in sub-paragraph (1), for “licensed to slaughter animals” substitute “who is the holder of a certificate of competence to slaughter animals”; and
(b)in sub-paragraph (3), for the definition of “licensed” substitute—
““certificate of competence to slaughter animals” means a certificate of competence issued in respect of an operation specified in regulation 6 of the Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014;”.
The Meat (Official Controls Charges) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009
2.—(1) The Meat (Official Controls Charges) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009(15) are amended as follows—
(b)for “the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996” substitute “Council Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009 and the Welfare of Animals at the Time of Killing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014”.
3. In Part 2 of the Schedule to the Gangmasters Licensing (Exclusions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014(16), for paragraph 12(a) substitute—
SCHEDULE 7TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS: CERTIFICATES
PART 1SIMPLIFIED PROCEDURE FOR PERSONS WHO HAVE THREE YEARS’ PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1.—(1) This part applies to a person who applies for a certificate before 8th December 2015 who, on the date of application, has at least three years’ professional experience in relation to the operation, category of animal and (where appropriate) type of equipment in respect of which the certificate is sought.
(2) A person to whom this part applies is not required to comply with regulation 8(b) if that person—
(b)provides a written declaration from an authorised veterinary surgeon that, in the opinion of the authorised veterinary surgeon, the person is a fit and proper person to hold a certificate.
Regulation 37(2)(b)
SCHEDULE 8TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS: SLAUGHTERHOUSES
2. The business operator shall ensure that a lairage other than a field lairage has—
3. The business operator shall ensure that a field lairage—
4. In the case of a slaughterhouse where poultry are killed, the business operator shall ensure that—
(b)the waterbath stunner does not overflow at the entrance or, if an overflow is unavoidable, measures are taken to ensure that no poultry receive an electrical shock before they are stunned.
(i)measure and continuously display the required concentration of gas (in accordance with Table 3 of Chapter I of Annex I); and
The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996 S.R. 1996 No. 558 The whole of the Regulations.
The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 S.R. 2000 No. 76 The whole of the Regulations.
The Food Standards Act 1999 (Transitional and Consequential Provisions and Savings) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000 S.R. 2000 No. 78 Regulation 10(1) and Schedule 8, Part I.
The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 S.R. 2001 No. 66 The whole of the Regulations.
Restriction on Pithing Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2001 S.R. 2001 No. 186 Regulation 4.
The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 S.R. 2002 No. 304 The whole of the Regulations.
The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 S.R. 2004 No. 209 The whole of the Regulations.
The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 S.R. 2008 No. 277 The whole of the Regulations.
The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 S.R. 2011 No. 407 The whole of the Regulations.
These Regulations make provision in Northern Ireland for the administration and enforcement of Council Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009 of 24 September 2009 on the protection of animals at the time of killing (O.J. No. L 303, 18.11.2009, p.1) (“the EU Regulation”) and certain national rules maintained or adopted under Articles 26(1) and (2) of the EU Regulation.
The Regulations revoke the Welfare of Animals (Slaughter or Killing) Regulations 1996 (Northern Ireland) (S.R. 1996 No. 558) and amending instruments.
Part 2 requires persons to obtain an EU certificate of competence or temporary certificate of competence before killing animals or carrying out related operations in a slaughterhouse. Part 2 is subject to the transitional arrangements in Schedule 7, which apply until 8th December 2015.
Part 3 establishes administrative provisions for the refusal, suspension or revocation of certificates and temporary certificates of competence and for the mechanism for review by the competent authority of a decision to refuse, suspend or revoke them.
Part 4 and Schedules 1 to 4 set out national rules that have been maintained or adopted in accordance with Article 26(1) and (2) of the EU Regulation to ensure more extensive protection of animals at the time of killing.
Part 5 makes provision for the competent authority to grant derogations from the provisions of the EU Regulation in exceptional circumstances where compliance is likely to affect human health or significantly slow down the eradication of a disease.
Part 6 sets out the offences for contravening these Regulations or the EU Regulation. Regulation 26 sets out the penalties on summary conviction.
Part 7 contains provisions relating to enforcement. Inspectors, appointed by the competent authority and district councils, are given powers to require compliance with these Regulations and the EU Regulation, including powers of entry and seizure and powers to issue enforcement notices. Breaching an enforcement notice and obstructing inspectors is an offence.
Part 8 provides for consequential amendments, transitional provisions and revocations. Regulation 38 makes provision for the competent authority to review the operation and effect of the Regulations.
A regulatory impact assessment has been prepared for these Regulations and placed in the library of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Copies can be obtained from Animal Health and Welfare Policy Division, Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for Northern Ireland or from the Department’s website (www.dardni.gov.uk).
1972 c.68; section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c.51) and section 3(3) of the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c.7)
O.J. No. L 303, 18.11.2009, p. 1
S.R. 1996 No. 558, as amended by S.R. 2000 No. 76, S.R. 2000 No. 78, S.R. 2001 No. 66, S.R. 2001 No. 186, S.R. 2002 No. 304, S.R. 2004 No. 209, S.R. 2008 No. 277 and S.R. 2011 No. 407.
Ofqual, a non-ministerial Government Deptartment, was established by section 127 of the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 (c.22). The matters in relation to which Ofqual has functions are set out in part 7 of that Act and include the regulation of vocational qualifications in Northern Ireland.
2011 c.16 (N.I)
1966 c.36; section 2 was amended by S.I. 2003/2919, Article 12 and the Schedule, paragraph 1 and S.I. 2008/1824, Article 2 and the Schedule, paragraph 2(a).
S.I. 1981/1115 (N.I. 22). as amended by S.I. 1984/702 (N.I. 2) Article 17, S.I. 1994/1891 (N.I. 6) Articles 22 and 23, and 2010 (c.1) Section 19.
S.I. 2004/702 (N.I. 3)
S.R. 2009 No. 247