Animal Slaughter or Killing (Protection)

L.N. 213 of 2023

ANIMAL WELFARE ACT

(CAP. 439)

Animal Slaughter or Killing (Protection)

(Amendment) Regulations, 2023

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by articles 7(2) and 11 of

the Animal Welfare Act, the Minister responsible for veterinary

services has made the following regulations:-

(1) The title of these regulations is the Animal Slaughter Citation and

or Killing (Protection) (Amendment) Regulations, 2023 and commencement.

these regulations shall be read and construed as one with the S.L. 439.03.

Animal Slaughter or Killing (Protection) Regulations, hereinafter

referred to as "the principal regulations".

(2) These regulations shall come into force within two (2)

months from their publication in the Gazette.

The principal regulations shall be amended as follows

General

amendments to

the principal

(a) regulations 4 to 15, both inclusive, of the principal

regulations.

regulations shall be deleted; and

(b)

all Schedules to the principal regulations shall be

deleted.

Sub-regulation (4) of regulation 1 of the principal Amends

regulations shall be substituted by the following new sub-regulation: regulation

the principal

regulations.

"(4) The scope of these regulations is to implement the

requirements of the provisions of Council Regulation (EC) No

1099/2009 of 24 September 2009 on the protection of animals at

the time of killing and to impose fines and penalties when there

is a breach of these regulations.".

Regulation 2 of the principal regulations shall be Substitutes

regulation 2 of

the principal

regulations.

substituted by the following new regulation

2. For the purposes of these regulations,

unless the context otherwise requires, terms and

expressions used in these regulations shall have the

same meaning as assigned to them in the Act and

Council Regulation (EC) No 1099/2009 of 24

September 2009 on the protection of animals at the

time of killing.

"Act" means the Animal Welfare Act;

"competent authority" means the Veterinary

Services.".

Immediately after sub-regulation (2) of regulation 16

of the principal regulations there shall be added the following

new sub-regulation

"(3) Where the Director for Veterinary Services has

reasonable cause to believe that a breach of these regulations has

been committed, he shall proceed in accordance with article 47

of the Act.".

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