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Poultry (Slaughtering for Export) Regulations.
[1970 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
First Schedule.
"export certificate" means an export certificate or any copy thereof issued by an inspector under regulation 11(0);
"food" means food for human consumption;
"inspector" means a public officer appointed as an inspector under section 17 of the Ordinance;
"licence" means a licence granted under paragraph (1) of regulation 5;
"licensee" means a person who holds a licence granted to him and also means a deputy appointed under regulation 10;
"packing material" includes all material used-
(a) to pack or wrap carcasses or poultry products; or
(b) to line containers in which carcasses or poultry products are packed;
"poultry export factory" means a place used or intended to be used for any or all of the following purposes, namely-
(a) the slaughter of poultry the carcasses or products of which are intended for export to a country specified in the First Schedule;
(b) the inspection or processing of carcasses or poultry products intended for export to such a country;
"poultry product" means food prepared from edible parts of poultry in combination with other edible substances;
"premises" includes-
(a) all buildings which are part of a poultry export factory; and
(b) all loading bays or other places where carcasses or poultry products are loaded into vehicles for removal from a poultry export factory;
"process" includes any act, other than cooking, done in the preparation, preservation or packing of-
(a) a carcass; or
(b) a poultry product,
which is intended for human consumption;
"unwholesome" in relation to a carcass or poultry products means-
(a) unsound, injurious to health or otherwise rendered unfit for food;
(b) filthy, putrid or decomposed;
(c) processed or stored under insanitary conditions so that the carcass or poultry product may become contaminated with filth or be rendered injurious to health; or