Use of firearms to render animals unconscious

– (a) For the purposes of these Regulations the use of firearms to render animals unconscious and the handling of animals in connection therewith shall not be considered inhumane treatment of animals, provided that when a small-bore firearm is used for these purposes only hollow pointed bullets, frangible iron plastic composition bullets or powdered iron missiles shall be used and when powdered iron missiles are used the firearm shall be held in close proximity with the skull of the animal when fired. (b) Firearms shall be employed to produce, by a single shot, immediate unconsciousness in an animal with the minimum of excitement and discomfort to it before the animal is shackled, hoisted, thrown, cast or cut. Slaughter of Animals 13 (a) For the purposes of these Regulations the use of shocks to unconscious and the handling of animals in connection therewith shall not be considered inhumane treatment of animals. (b) The quality and location of the electrical shock shall be such as to produce immediate insensibility to pain to the exposed animals. (c) A stunned animal shall be kept in a state of surgical anesthesia throughout the shackling, sticking and bleeding processes but so that death results from loss of blood resulting from the sticking and bleeding and not from the electrical shock.