The Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2002
These Regulations amend the Poultry Meat, Farmed Game Bird Meat and Rabbit Meat (Hygiene and Inspection) Regulations 1995 (“the principal Regulations”). These Regulations extend to Scotland only. The amendments have effect to–exempt from the principal Regulations certain local sales of small quantities of poultry meat or rabbit meat by farmers with an annual production of less than 10,000 birds or 10,000 rabbits (regulation 2(2) to (6)); the definition of ‘holding' in regulation 2(2) is made under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972;prohibit a person from operating a licensed low throughput slaughterhouse unless that person has notified the Food Standards Agency of the number and origin of the birds and rabbits to be slaughtered there (regulation 2(7));revoke regulation 15(3) (exemption from requirement in respect of transport documentation) and make consequential amendments to regulation 15(1) and (2) (regulation 2(8) and (9));amend regulation 18(1)(a)(i) (duty of occupier to keep records) to require the occupier of licensed premises to record the origin of meat entering the premises (regulation 2(10));amend the requirements in Schedule 5, Part I, paragraph 5 in relation to refrigeration equipment in low throughput slaughterhouses and low throughput cutting premises (regulation 2(11));correct an error in Schedule 8, paragraph 11 (regulation 2(12)); andamend the requirements in Schedule 14, paragraph 1(a) in relation to the transport of fresh meat of birds from low throughput slaughterhouses and low throughput cutting premises (regulation 2(13)).