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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 24тu JUNE, 1899.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to further amend the Cattle
Diseases, Slaughter Houses and Markets Ordi-
nances.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Cattle Diseases, Short title. Slaughter Houses and Markets Ordinance, 1899.
PART I.
2. The sub-section, which was substituted by Ordinance Amendment 12 of 1890 in place of sub-section 4 of section 3 of Ordi- of substi- nance No. 17 of 1887, is hereby amended as follows, namely:-
By substituting "$100 in place of "$200" in the
said sub-section.
PART II.
3. Section 12 of the Cattle Diseases, Slaughter Houses and Markets Ordinance, 1887, is hereby amended by the
deletion of the words "for sale."
4. No person shall counterfeit or make use of, or attempt to counterfeit or to make use of, the official mark or stamp which is used to mark beef and mutton before the carcases leave the Slaughter House, and which is intended to show that such carcases are, fit for human food. Any person committing an offence against this section shall be liable, upon summary conviction before a Magistrate, to imprison- ment for a period not exceeding six months with or with- out hard labour, or, upon conviction in the Supreme Court, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.
tuted sub- sec. 4 of sec. 3 of Ordinance 17 of 1887.
Amendment of sec. 12 of
Ordinance 17 of 1887.
Penalty for
counterfeit. ing official mark on beef
or mutton.
case not
5. Should any Inspector of Markets at any time discover Power to in any of the markets of the Colony any carcase or part of destroy car- any carcase of beef or mutton, not bearing the official mark bearing or stamp, he is hereby authorized to seize such carcase official mark. or part of a carcase, and the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon may order the same to be destroyed, and no compensation shall be payable to any person in respect of such destruc- tion.
Objects and Reasons.
The object of section 2 of this Bill is to reduce the maximum amount payable by the Government of this Colony as compensation for slaughtered cattle, it having been found that the sums recently paid as compensation have reached a very considerable total. Sub-section 4 of section 3 of Ordinance 17 of 1887 provided that the maxi- mum amount of compensation payable for each animal slaughtered should be $50 only, but Ordinance 12 of 1890 raised the amount payable to $200. It is proposed by this Bill to reduce the amount of compensation payable to $100 per head.
The object of the amendment mentioned in section 3 is to make it a punishable offence for any person to slaughter any animal or dress any carcase except within a proper slaughter-house, even though such animal or carcase may not be intended "for sale.'
The object of section 4 of the Bill is to make it a punishable offence to counterfeit or make use of or attempt to counterfeit or make use of the official stamp which is used to mark beef or mutton; and section 5 authorizes the destruction of any carcase of beef or mutton which does not bear the official stamp.
HENRY E. POLLock,
Acting Attorney General.