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Slaughter of Animals Act, 1933.
This Act received the Royal Assent on the 28th July, 1933,
and came into operation on the 1st January, 1934.
It requires the use of a mechanically operated instrument for
the slaughtering or stunning in a slaughter-house or knackers'yard
of:—
(a) any horse, mare, gelding, pony, foal, colt, filly, stallion,
ass, donkey, mule, bull, cow, bullock, heifer, calf, steer,
ox, goat, or kid ; and
(b) any pig, boar, hog or sow where there is available a
supply of electrical energy or where such a supply could
reasonably have been made available ; and
(c) any sheep, ewe, wether, ram or lamb where a resolution
is passed by the local authority requiring such animals
to be slaughtered or stunned with a mechanically operated
instrument.
In connection with (c) above a resolution was passed by the
Council on the '28th November, 1933, requiring that, as from the
1st January, 1934, a mechanically operated instrument must be
used for slaughtering or stunning all sheep, ewes, wethers, rams
or lambs slaughtered in the slaughter-houses and knackers'—yard
within the borough.
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