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or departing from the slaughter houses, or wilfully or improperly station such cart or vehicle so as to occupy a position in which the person in charge of any other cart or vehicle would, by priority of arrival, have claim to place such last mentioned cart or vehicle.
10. No person affected with leprosy, sores or any contagious or infectious disease shall enter any slaughter house premises or shall take part in the slaughtering of any animal for human food or in the handling of the flesh of such animal.
11. The Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, the Director of Public Works, the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and the Inspector General of Police, and their respective officers, as well as any Food Officer shall at all times have free access to every part of every slaughter house.
Depots for Animals before admission to slaughter houses.
12. All cattle, swine, and goats brought to the Colony for the purpose of being slaughtered shall be kept, except when turned out to graze, in a properly constructed Government depot licensed by the Board.
13. No such animal shall be permitted to remain in any Govern- ment depot for a longer period than twenty-one days: Provided that any such animal which is condemned by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon as unfit to be slaughtered for human food shall be removed forthwith by the owner.
14. No cattle, sheep or goats, shall be turned out to graze when the Council shall, for sanitary reasons, forbid such grazing by an order in writing
Admission of Animals to Slaughter Houses.
15. The slaughter houses shall for the purpose of the admissions of animals be open at such hours as may be fixed by the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon with the approval of the Urban Council.
16. Whenever in the opinion of the Council it is expedient for its maintenance or preservation to close any part of any slaughter house, a notice to that effect shall be posted in some conspicuous part of such slaughter house specifying the part that is to close, and no person shall thereafter use or enter such part until a further notice has been published and posted as aforesaid notifying the reopening of such part.
17. No person shall bring into any slaughter house any animal which is not intended for slaughter and particularly shall not bring any dog into a slaughter house.
18. No person shall convey or cause to be conveyed or attempt to convey any dead animal into any slaughter house for any purpose whatever.
19. Every person desiring to bring ar. animal into a slaughter house shall apply to the officer in charge to inspect and pass such animal, and no person shall bring or cause to be brought or attempt to bring into a slaughter house any animal which has not been duly inspected and passed by the officer in charge.
20. The mark known as the Broad Arrow shall be used for the purpose of denoting the fitness of cattle to be slaughtered for human food. No cattle shall be slaughtered for human food in any slaughter house unless marked with the broad arrow. Every person who, without lawful authority stamps, uses, applies or impresses the broad arrow, or any mark apparently intended to resemble the broad arrow, on any cattle, shall be deemed to have contravened the provisions of these by-laws.
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