The Welfare of Calves Regulations 1987

UK Statutory Instrument 1987 No. 2021 — creates 1 criminal offence.

1offences created

0recorded in force

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Made: 23 January 1987
In force from: 1 January 1990
Extent: Not stated
Subject: Education, social security, pensions and public services
Made under: Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968

Explanatory note

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These Regulations prohibit a person from keeping a single calf in a pen or stall on agricultural land unless certain specified requirements are complied with, and which include requirements as to the width of the pen or stall and the daily diet which is to be fed to the calf (regulation 2). A breach of any provision of these Regulations is an offence under section 2 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968 (regulation 3).

Offences created by this instrument

A person who contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of these Regulations shall be guilty of an offence… regulation 3 · Status not determined · Strict liability

What Parliament said about it

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Welfare Of Calves Commons · Commons Chamber · 18 November 1987
That the draft Welfare of Calves Regulations 1987, which were laid before this House on 15th July, be approved.
Business Lords · Lords Chamber · 19 November 1987 · Lord Denham
My Lords, at a convenient moment after 3.30 this afternoon my noble friend Lord Brabazon of Tara will, with the leave of the House, repeat a Statement that is to be made in another place on the fire at King's Cross Station. It may also be for the convenience of your Lordships to know that the Report stage of the Criminal Justice Bill will be adjourned for a period at approximately 7 p.m. and that during this adjournment the Welfare of Battery Hens Regulations 1987 and the Welfare of Calves Regulations 1987 will be taken.
Welfare Of Calves Regulations 1987 Lords · Lords Chamber · 19 November 1987
Code Of Recommendations For The Welfare Of Sheep Lords · Lords Chamber · 12 July 1990
The welfare codes provide a wealth of valuable advice to farmers on how to keep and look after their animals. In some areas, however, it is necessary for the codes to be reinforced by legislation. We already have, for example, the Welfare of Calves Regulations 1987. The regulations now before the House give the force of law to further provisions which have up to now been covered in the codes.
Welfare Of Livestock Regulations 1994 Lords · Lords Chamber · 15 July 1994
There are two important respects in which the requirements in these regulations go further than those in the directives. I refer, of course, to the ban on the use of veal crates and the phasing out of close confinement stalls and tethers for pigs. In the case of veal crates the ban was introduced in the Welfare of Calves Regulations 1987 and came fully into effect in 1990. The phase out of stalls and tethers was introduced by the Welfare of Pigs Regulations 1991 which allowed an eight year phase-out period to the end of 1998, unlike the directive which requires the phasing out of systems…

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