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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).
Section 40 of the 1974 Act (slaughtermen’s licences and applications for such licences) shall be amended as follows.
In subsection (1)(b) (supervision conditions), there shall be added at the end “or (as the case may be) except under the supervision of a person having such qualifications as may be prescribed by the regulations”.
In subsection (2) (prescribed qualifications for slaughtermen’s licences, etc.), for the words from “prescribing” to “the prescribed qualifications” there shall be substituted the words “prohibiting the grant or renewal of licences, or of licences of any class, to persons not having such qualifications as may be prescribed by the regulations”.
After that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsections—.
Section 16 of the 1980 Act (further provisions in relation to the licensing of slaughtermen and knackers) shall be amended as follows.
In subsection (1) (which provides for the grant of licences under section 15 of that Act subject to a condition prohibiting slaughter except under supervision), there shall be added at the end “or (as the case may be) except under the supervision of a person having such qualifications as may be prescribed by the regulations”.
In subsection (3) (prescribed qualifications for licences under section 15), for the words from “prescribing” to the end there shall be substituted the words “prohibiting the grant of licences, or of licences of any class, under the said section 15 to persons not having such qualifications as may be prescribed by the regulations”.
After that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsections—.
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—.
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The following section shall be inserted in the 1974 Act after section 41—.
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In this Act—
“the 1974 Act” means the Slaughterhouses Act 1974; and
“the 1974 Act” means the Slaughterhouses Act 1974; and
“the 1980 Act” means the Slaughter of Animals (Scotland) Act 1980.
“the 1980 Act” means the Slaughter of Animals (Scotland) Act 1980.
This Act may be cited as the Welfare of Animals at Slaughter Act 1991.
This Act shall come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the date on which it is passed.
This Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.