The Welfare of Pigs Regulations 1991

UK Statutory Instrument 1991 No. 1477 — creates 2 criminal offences.

Made

26 June 1991

In force from

1 October 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 apply on agricultural land. They prohibit the tethering of pigs (regulation 2) and the keeping of any pig in a stall or pen unless the stall or pen meets specified requirements (regulation 3) subject to certain exceptions (regulations 2(3), 3(4) and (5). These Regulations create offences under section 2 of the Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1968 for which the penalty on summary conviction is imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 months or a fine not exceeding level 4 on the standard scale (currently £1000), or both.

Offences created by this instrument

• Prohibitions relating to tethers regulation 2(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability
• Prohibitions relating to stalls and pens regulation 3(1) · Status not determined · Strict liability

What Parliament said about it

Contributions, debates and written statements mentioning this instrument by name. Parliamentary material is reused under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

• Welfare Of Pigs Regulations 1991 Lords · Lords Chamber · 20 June 1991
• 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 · Earl Howe

  My Lords, I was just about to turn to what the Government propose to do and to press for in the Community. As I mentioned in my opening remarks, the directive is to be reviewed. In fact, it required the Commission to review the existing rules and to propose new minimum standards for alternative systems of husbandry by the beginning of 1993. The Commission's proposals have not yet been published. We shall be pressing the Commission to do so. The UK is seeking for battery cage systems a significantly increased area per bird over the 450 square centimetres that is currently required. We are…

• 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…

• Pig Industry Commons · Commons Chamber · 15 December 1994 · Mr. Michael Colvin (Romsey and Waterside)

  I am pleased, as a result of the luck of the draw, to speak so early in the Adjournment debate following the Consolidated Fund measures, when the House voted a further total of about £146 million for Government expenditure by various Departments of State. If my hon. Friend the Member for Tiverton (Mrs. Browning), the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, who is to reply to the debate, could have won just one tenth of that amount for the pig farmers of this country, my speech would not be necessary. It is no bad thing to start a speech with an undisputed…

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