Catalogue description Farm Animal Welfare Council Website

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Details of MAF 594
Reference: MAF 594
Title: Farm Animal Welfare Council Website
Description:

This series contains dated gathered versions (or 'snapshots') of the Farm Animal Welfare Council website. [Please note: These records may be accessed via the UK Government Web Archive]
Date: From 2009
Arrangement:

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Related material:

For the website of the successor Farm Animal Welfare Committee, please see: MAF 685
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2001-

Farm Animal Welfare Council, 1979-2011
Physical description: archived website(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

Gathered from original website.
Accruals: Future website versions may be anticipated.
Administrative / biographical background:

The Farm Animal Welfare Council was an independent advisory body established by the Government in 1979. Its terms of reference were to keep under review the welfare of farm animals on agricultural land, at market, in transit and at the place of slaughter; and to advise the Government of any legislative or other changes that may be necessary. The Council was an advisory non-departmental public body of Defra; it closed on 31 March 2011 and was replaced by the Farm Animal Welfare Committee.

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