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What it requires
Regulations creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.
8 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001
Citation and commencement
s.002
Interpretation
s.003
Duties on persons responsible for farmed animals
s.004
Additional duties on persons responsible for poultry, laying hens, conventionally reared meat chickens, calves, cattle, pigs or rabbits
s.005
Codes of Practice
s.006
Offences
s.007
Penalties
s.008
Revocations
Schedules
Schedules
7 of 130 shown
s.sch005
Record keeping
Regulated
- Keep records of chickens in each house and retain for 3 yearsAny Person
s.sch005
Notification of stocking density
Regulated
- Notify Department of intended chicken stocking density over 33 kg/m²Any Person
s.sch005
Requirements for higher stocking densities
Regulated
- Keep detailed chicken house records and meet environmental standardsAny Person
s.sch005
Food chain information and chickens dead on arrival and mortality
Regulated
- Record mortality and breed data for high-density chicken flocksOperator
s.sch005
Identification of poor welfare conditions and follow up
Regulated
- Take all reasonable steps to ensure chicken welfare upon receiving a poor welfare reportAny Person
s.sch005
Inspection
Regulated
- Inspect chickens at least twice daily and treat injured birds immediatelyAny Person
s.sch008
(1) Where tethers are used in accordance with paragraph 3,...
Regulated
- Use tethers safely on pigs — inspect and adjust regularlyAny Person
123 other schedules
s.sch001
Staffing
s.sch001
Where animals are continuously or regularly tethered or confined, they...
s.sch001
Buildings and accommodation
s.sch001
Accommodation and fittings for securing animals shall be constructed and...
s.sch001
Air circulation, dust levels, temperature, relative air humidity and gas...
s.sch001
Animals kept in buildings shall not be kept in permanent...
s.sch001
Where the natural light available in a building is insufficient...
s.sch001
Animals kept in buildings shall not be kept without an...
s.sch001
Animals not kept in buildings
s.sch001
Automatic or mechanical equipment
s.sch001
Where defects or worn parts in automated or mechanical equipment...
s.sch001
Inspection
s.sch001
Where the health and well-being of the animals is dependent...
s.sch001
The back-up system referred to in paragraph 20(a) shall be...
s.sch001
Feed, water and other substances
s.sch001
Animals shall not— (a) be provided with food or liquid...
s.sch001
All animals shall have access to feed at intervals appropriate...
s.sch001
All animals shall have access to a suitable water supply...
s.sch001
Feeding and watering equipment shall be designed, constructed, placed and...
s.sch001
(1) No other substance, with the exception of those given...
s.sch001
Breeding procedures
s.sch001
Animals shall not be kept for farming purposes unless it...
s.sch001
Where animals are kept in a building, adequate lighting (whether...
s.sch001
Electrical immobilisation
s.sch001
Where any animals (other than poultry) are kept in a...
s.sch001
Any animals which appear to be ill or injured shall...
s.sch001
Where necessary, sick or injured animals shall be isolated in...
s.sch001
Record keeping
s.sch001
The record referred to in paragraph 7 shall be retained...
s.sch001
Freedom of movement
s.sch002
All non-cage systems of production for keeping laying hens shall...
s.sch002
All systems shall be equipped in such a way that...
s.sch002
Where a system is equipped with nipple drinkers or cups,...
s.sch002
Where a system has drinking points plumbed in, at least...
s.sch002
The floors of installations shall be constructed so as to...
s.sch002
If systems are used where the laying hens can move...
s.sch002
If laying hens have access to open runs—
s.sch002
The stocking density shall not exceed nine laying hens per...
s.sch003
All cage systems shall be enriched to comply with the...
s.sch003
The design and dimensions of the cage door shall be...
s.sch003
Laying hens shall have— (a) at least 750 cm2 of...
s.sch003
A feed trough which can be used without restriction shall...
s.sch003
Each cage shall have a drinking system appropriate to the...
s.sch003
To facilitate inspection, installation and depopulation of hens there shall...
s.sch003
Cages shall be fitted with suitable claw-shortening devices.
s.sch003
While the cages are occupied the surfaces and all equipment...
s.sch003
Cages shall be suitably equipped to prevent hens escaping.
s.sch003
Accommodation comprising two or more tiers of cages shall have...
s.sch004
All hens shall be inspected by the owner or other...
s.sch004
In all systems in which laying hens are kept—
s.sch004
(1) All buildings shall have light levels sufficient to allow...
s.sch004
Those parts of buildings, equipment or utensils which are in...
s.sch004
Droppings shall be removed as often as necessary and dead...
s.sch005
Interpretation
s.sch005
Stocking density limits
s.sch005
Approval for stocking in excess of 39 kilograms
s.sch005
Training
s.sch005
Drinkers and feeding
s.sch005
Litter
s.sch005
Ventilation and heating
s.sch005
Noise
s.sch005
Light
s.sch005
Cleaning
s.sch006
Accommodation
s.sch006
Additional dietary requirements
s.sch006
Muzzling
s.sch006
Feeding
s.sch006
Drinking water
s.sch006
Inspection
s.sch006
Calves that are kept outside shall be inspected by the...
s.sch006
Tethering
s.sch006
Artificially lit buildings
s.sch006
Cleansing and disinfection
s.sch006
Floors
s.sch006
Bedding and lying area
s.sch006
Bovine colostrum
s.sch007
Where lactating dairy cows or calving cows are kept in...
s.sch007
Where any calving cows are kept in a building, they...
s.sch008
Interpretation
s.sch008
Bedding
s.sch008
Floors
s.sch008
Where concrete slatted floors are used for pigs kept in...
s.sch008
Feeding
s.sch008
Drinking water
s.sch008
Environmental enrichment
s.sch008
Prohibition on the use of the sweatbox system
s.sch008
Noise levels
s.sch008
Noise levels above 85dBA shall be avoided in that part...
s.sch008
Boar pens shall be sited and constructed so as to...
s.sch008
Inspection
s.sch008
The lying area for boars shall be dry and comfortable....
s.sch008
Subject to paragraph 22, the minimum unobstructed floor area for...
s.sch008
When boar pens are also used for natural service, the...
s.sch008
Pregnant gilts and sows shall, where necessary, be treated against...
s.sch008
Farrowing
s.sch008
In the week before the expected farrowing time sows and...
s.sch008
During farrowing, an unobstructed area behind the sow or gilt...
s.sch008
Farrowing pens where sows or gilts are kept loose shall...
s.sch008
Group housing
s.sch008
The pen where the group is kept shall have sides...
s.sch008
Tethering
s.sch008
The total unobstructed floor area available to each gilt after...
s.sch008
For gilts after service and pregnant sows a part of...
s.sch008
Sows and gilts kept on holdings of fewer than 10...
s.sch008
In addition to the requirements of paragraph 13, sows and...
s.sch008
All dry pregnant sows and gilts shall be given a...
s.sch008
Piglets shall, where necessary, be provided with a source of...
s.sch008
A part of the total floor where the piglets are...
s.sch008
Where a farrowing crate is used the piglets shall have...
s.sch008
Subject to paragraph 39 piglets shall not be weaned from...
s.sch008
Piglets may be weaned up to 7 days earlier than...
s.sch008
As soon as possible after weaning, weaners and rearing pigs...
s.sch008
If weaners and rearing pigs unfamiliar with one another have...
s.sch008
The use of tranquillising medication in order to facilitate mixing...
s.sch008
If signs of severe fighting appear, the causes shall be...
s.sch008
The unobstructed floor area available to each weaner or rearing...
s.sch008
Accommodation
s.sch008
(1) The dimensions of any stall or pen used for...
s.sch008
Artificially lit buildings
s.sch008
Prevention of fighting
s.sch008
Cleansing and disinfection
s.sch009
Hutches or cages in which any rabbits are kept shall...
s.sch009
Where rabbits are kept in accommodation that is exposed to...
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