Menachos 9:7-8

Menachos 9:7

No communal offerings require the laying of hands (semicha) except for the bull that is brought for violating any commandment (because of an erroneous ruling by the court) and the scapegoat on Yom Kippur. Rabbi Shimon also includes the male goats that are brought for idolatry (again, if erroneously permitted by the court). All private offerings require the laying of hands except for a firstborn animal, animal tithes and the Passover offering. If a person who designated an offering dies, his heir lays the hands, brings the libations, and performs substitutions.

Menachos 9:8

Anyone can perform the laying of hands except for a person with congenital deafness, a person lacking mental competence, a minor, a blind person, a non-Jew, a slave, an agent and a woman. The laying of hands is not an indispensable act; it is performed on the animal’s head using both hands. The animal is slaughtered in the same place as one laid hands (so if one laid hands outside the Temple courtyard, he must do so again inside the courtyard). The laying of hands is immediately followed by slaughtering.