The Welfare of Livestock Regulations 1990

UK Statutory Instrument 1990 No. 1445 — creates 1 criminal offence.

Made

16 July 1990

In force from

1 January 1991

Extent

Not stated

Subject

Dogs, animals, hunting and wildlife

Made under

Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These Regulations make provision for the welfare of livestock on agricultural land by imposing a duty on any person who keeps the livestock to ensure that– a anyone attending or in charge of the livestock (including himself) has access to any welfare code relating to that livestock and that such persons are aware of the provisions of any such code and, in the case of persons attending or in charge of livestock on his behalf, that they have received instruction and guidance on its provisions (regulation 3(a), (b) and (c)); b where any livestock are kept in buildings, there is adequate lighting to enable them to be thoroughly inspected (regulation 3(d)); c the interior of any building to which livestock have access is so constructed and maintained that it cannot cause them injury or distress (regulation 3(e)) and that the fittings used to restrain livestock are adequate (regulation 3(f)); and d the livestock are properly fed and watered (regulation 3(g) and (h)). The Regulations also contain welfare provisions concerning bedding, separation of livestock, sick or injured animals, cows which are lactating or calving, feeding of calves, accommodation of rabbits and procedures involving electro-immobilisation of livestock (regulation 3(i) to (p)). In addition, the Regulations amend the Welfare of Livestock (Intensive Units) Regulations 1978 by inserting welfare provisions concerning automatic ventilation systems in intensive units (regulation 4).

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 5 · Status not determined · Strict liability

What Parliament said about it

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• Animals Commons · Commons Chamber · 12 July 1990

  Motion made, and Question put forthwith pursuant to Standing Order No. 101(5) (Standing Committees on Statutory Instruments, &c.). That the draft Welfare of Livestock Regulations 1990, which were laid before this House on 21st June, be approved — [Mr. Lightbown]

• Welfare Of Livestock Regulations 1990 Lords · Lords Chamber · 12 July 1990
• Agriculture Commons · Commons Chamber · 18 April 1991 · Sir Jim Spicer (Dorset, West)

  I am delighted to follow my hon. Friend the Member for Somerton and Frome (Mr. Boscawen). For far too many years he was shut away in the Whips' Office and we did not hear enough from him. We are delighted to have him back and to hear his contributions, which are always of great value. My right hon. Friend the Minister has given us a realistic assessment of the situation. I do not understand why the Opposition spokesman should have been so scathing in his condemnation. As always, the Liberal Democrat spokesman wanted it both ways. He wanted the Minister to exercise more power, yet the Liberal…

• Animal Welfare Commons · Commons Chamber · 30 June 1994 · Mr. Soames

  If my hon. Friend will allow me to proceed in an orderly fashion, I shall come to that. The phase-out of stalls and tethers was first proposed by my hon. Friend the Member for Holland with Boston (Sir R. Body), who has a most distinguished record in this field. It was introduced by the Welfare of Pigs Regulations 1991, which allowed an eight-year phase-in period to the end of 1998—unlike the directive, which requires the phasing out of systems using tethers by the end of 2005 and allows the use of close confinement stalls to continue. The United Kingdom requirements were in place before the…

• Welfare Of Livestock Regulations 1994 Lords · Lords Chamber · 15 July 1994

  Next I would like to deal with the schedule: concerning the welfare of other livestock. This brings together requirements currently contained in the Welfare of Livestock (Intensive Units) Regulations 1978 and the Welfare of Livestock Regulations 1990. The intensive units regulations were introduced in 1978 as a result of our commitment to implement the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Animals Kept for Farming Purposes. That convention has now been amended, requiring contracting parties to amend the definition of intensive farming in their law. The old definition assumed that…

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