Hong Kong Regulations

SLAUGHTERHOUSES REGULATION - SECT 18

Method of killing

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

PART IV

SLAUGHTER AND EXAMINATION

(1) Subject to subsection (2), no licensee shall permit the killing of a
food animal in his licensed slaughterhouse unless the food animal has first
been rendered unconscious by means of a captive bolt pistol or electric
stunner in proper repair and working order or by any other means which have
been approved by the Director.

(2) The Director may authorize the slaughter of a food animal in a
licensed slaughterhouse by any method specially required by any religion and
no licensee shall deny a religious community such slaughtering facilities.
(Enacted 1991. 78 of 1999 s. 7)