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Settlement

of dispute.

Provision and cleanliness

43. If any difference or dispute shall arise between any person using any licensed premises regarding any question of priority as to the use of any part of such licensed premises, or any utensil, article, gear or apparatus provided therein, such difference or dispute shall be referred by the licensee to the Senior Veterinary Officer, a health officer or food officer, whose decision shall be final and shall be obeyed by such persons.

44. The owner, or the person for the time being in charge of any animal to be slaughtered, shall provide the proper instru- of

ments and appliances required for the purpose and shall cause instruments And

such articles to be thoroughly cleansed immediately after the appliances. completion of the process of slaughtering in which they have been used, and shall cause every such article when not in use to be kept thoroughly clean.

Marking of

CaTRESSES.

Seizure of unytamped meat.

Suspension

46. The Senior Veterinary Officer may cause such stamps or other instruments to be made for the purpose of establishing a special mark for beef, mutton and pork before such carcasses leave any licensed premises, in order to show that such carcasses are fit for human food, and may change or alter such mark, and every such mark for the time being in use at any licensed premises under the authority of the Senior Veterinary Officer shall be the official mark within the meaning of this rule.

48. (1) If any health officer, food officer, or police officer at any time discovers any carcass or part of a carcass of beef, mutton or pork not hearing the official mark aforesaid, he may seize and remove it, and the Senior Veterinary Officer, unless satisfied that the carcass or part thereof was imported into the Colony under official permit, may order it to be destroyed and no compensation shail be payable to any person in respect of such destruction.

(2) No person shall sell, offer for sale, or have in his possession for the purpose of sale any meat liable to seizure under paragraph (1).

47. Any breach of these rules or of any prescribed direction, or cancella- instruction or condition shall render a licence liable to suspension for such period as the District Commissioner may decide or to cancellation without prior notice from him.

tion of licence.

Penalty.

48. Any person who acts in contravention of rule 3, 8(1), 10, 11, 12, 15 to 43, 44 or 46(2) shall be liable to a fine of one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for six months,

FIRST SCHEDULE.

FORM I

Form of Application for a licence to

erect a Slaughter-house.

To the District Commissioner, New Territories.

1.

of

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do hereby apply

to you for a licence, for the erection of certain premises to be used and occupied as a slaughter-house; and I do hereby declare that to the best of my knowledge and belief the Schedule here- unto annexed contains a true statement of the several particulars therein set forth with respect to the said premises.

SCHEDULE.

1. Boundaries, area, and description of the proposed site of the premises to be erected as a slaughter-house.

2. Description of the premises to be erected on

such site:

(a) Nature, position, form, superficial area and cubical contents of the several buildings therein comprised.

(b) Extent of paved area in such buildings, and materials to be employed in the paving of such area.

(c) Mode of construction of the internal sur- face of the walls of such buildings, and materials to be employed in such con-

struction,

(d) Means of water supply,--position, form, materials, mode of construction and capacity of the several cisterns, tanks, or other receptacles for water to be constructed for permanent use in or upon the premises.