The Slaughterhouses Act 1974 (c. 3) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that consolidated enactments relating to slaughterhouses and knackers' yards and the slaughter of animals in England and Wales.

Provisions Repealed enactments Section 47(2) of the act repealed 6 enactments, listed in the sixth schedule to the act. CitationShort titleExtent of repeal4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 16Food and Drugs Act 1955Part IV except section 80.In section 80, in subsection (1), the words "a public slaughterhouse or ".In section 120(1), the words from "The reference in this subsection" to the end.Section 125(1)(c).In section 130(1), the words "or of paragraph (a) of section seventy-four thereof".In section 135(1), in the definition of "premises" the words "except in Part IV of this Act" and the definitions of "slaughterhouse facilities" and "slaughterhouse licence".6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 70Slaughterhouses Act 1958The whole act.7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 8Slaughter of Animals Act 1958The whole act.1963 c. 33London Government Act 1963In section 54(1), paragraph (c), the words "and the local authority for the purposes of each of the said Acts of 1958" and the words "slaughterhouses, knackers' yards, and".In Schedule 13, Part III.1967 c. 80Criminal Justice Act 1967In Part I of Schedule 3, the entries relating to section 69(2) of the Food and Drugs Act 1955 and section 8(2) of the Slaughter of Animals Act 1958.1972 c. 62Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1972Section 5.In section 27, in subsection (2), the words "paragraphs (a), (c), (d) and (e) of subsection (1) and subsections (2) and (3) of section 5" and the words "to sections 65, 70(1) and 75 to 78 of the Food and Drugs Act 1955, to the Slaughterhouses Act 1958"; and in subsection (4), the word "5" where it first occurs.

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