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ANIMAL SLAUGHTER OR KILLING (PROTECTION) REGULATIONS
Table of Provisions (25)
Statutory Text (25 Articles)
SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 439.03
ANIMAL SLAUGHTER OR KILLING
(PROTECTION) REGULATIONS
30th September, 2003
LEGAL NOTICE 260 of 2003, as amended by Legal Notices 426 of 2007
and 213 of 2023.
Chapter I
General provisions
(1) The title of these regulations is the Animal Slaughter or
Killing (Protection) Regulations.
(2) These regulations shall apply to the movement, lairaging,
restraint, stunning, slaughter and killing of animals bred and kept
for the production of meat, skin, fur or other products and to
methods of killing animals for the purpose of disease control.
(3)
These regulations shall not apply to -
(a) technical or scientific experiments relating to the
procedures mentioned in sub-regulation (1), carried
out under the supervision of the Veterinary Services;
(b) animals which are killed in cultural or sports events;
(c) wild game killed in accordance with article 3 of
European Union Council Directive 92/45/EEC.
(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.
Requirements for the movement and lairaging of animals in slaughterhouses
Repealed by Legal Notice 213 of 2023.
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.
Restraint of animals before stunning, slaughter or killing
Repealed by Legal Notice 213 of 2023.
Animals shall be spared any avoidable excitement, pain or
suffering during movement, lairaging, restraint, stunning, slaughter
or killing.
Chapter II
Requirements applicable to slaughterhouses
Stunning or killing of animals other than animals reared for fur
Repealed by Legal Notice 213 of 2023.
Repealed by Legal Notice 213 of 2023.
Bleeding of animals
Repealed by Legal Notice 213 of 2023.
Repealed by Legal Notice 213 of 2023.
Killing methods for disease control
Repealed by Legal Notice 213 of 2023.
Repealed by Legal Notice 213 of 2023.
Methods of killing fur animals
Repealed by Legal Notice 213 of 2023.
Repealed by Legal Notice 213 of 2023.
Killing of surplus chicks and embryos in hatchery waste
Repealed by Legal Notice 213 of 2023.
ANIMAL SLAUGHTER OR KILLING (PROTECTION)
Repealed by Legal Notice 213 of 2023.
Chapter III
Slaughter and killing outwith slaughterhouses
Repealed by Legal Notice 213 of 2023.
Repealed by Legal Notice 213 of 2023.
Repealed by Legal Notice 213 of 2023.
Repealed by Legal Notice 213 of 2023.
Chapter IV
Final provisions
Repealed by Legal Notice 213 of 2023.
Repealed by Legal Notice 213 of 2023.
Repealed by Legal Notice 213 of 2023.
(1) Subject to the provisions of these regulations and of
the Animal Welfare Act, a person who infringes any of the
provisions arising from these regulations, shall, on conviction, be
liable to a fine (multa) of not less than eleven thousand and six
hundred and forty-six euro and eighty-seven cents (11,646.87) and
not more than thirty-four thousand and nine hundred and forty euro
and sixty cents (34,940.60).
(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-regulation (1),
the Court may also order any person who is found guilty of
committing an offence under these regulations, to pay for the
expenses incurred by the Veterinary Services as a result of the said
offence, the revocation of the permit issued under these regulations
and the confiscation, retention and disposal of the corpus delicti.
(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.
No animal which is not kept or bred for agricultural
purposes may be killed for food consumption without the
authorisation of the Veterinary Services