S.L. 439.13 Art. 7Methods of killing.

(1) The Department shall establish and maintain a monitoring system for the enforcement of killing of animals with minimum pain, suffering and distress, and such system shall include that such animals are killed in the establishment of a breeder, supplier or user, by a competent person, provided that in the case of a field study an animal may be killed by a competent person outside an establishment.

(2) In relation to animals listed in Schedule IV, the appropriate method of killing as set out in that Schedule shall be used.

(3) The Department may grant exemptions from the requirement in sub-regulation (2):

(a) to allow the use of another method provided that, on the basis of scientific evidence, the method is considered to be at least as humane; or

(b) when, on the basis of scientific justification, the purpose of the procedure may not be achieved by the use of a method of killing set out in Schedule IV.

(4) Sub-regulations (1) and (2) shall not apply where an animal has to be killed in emergency circumstances for animal-welfare, public-health, public-security, animal-health or environmental reasons.