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Regulations

as to

slaughtering und

slaughter-

houses.

Power to seize

and dispose of

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77. (1) The Authority may in relation to the slaughter of animals or birds for food for human consumption make regulations prescribing or providing for-

(a) the regulation or control (including prohibition) of slaughtering

in any place other than a slaughterbouse;

(b) the methods, instruments or appliances which may be used

when slaughtering is carried out:

(c) the sanitary maintenance and proper staffing and management of slaughterhouses, including exclusion therefrom of undesir able persons or persons suffering from any specified com- municable disease:

(d) the disposal, treatment or processing of waste matters, refuse and by-products resulting from the slaughtering of animals or birds in any slaughterhouse;

(e) the examination, inspection and marking of animals intended

for slaughter:

() the control of the transport of carcases or parts of carcases from any public or private slaughterhouse to any other place; (g) in the case of public slaughterhouses-

(i) the payment of fees or charges for the use of any slaughterhouse or for the use of any services provided therem or in connexion therewith; and

(ii) the persons by whom all or any of the activities of any slaughterhouse may be carried on;

(b) in the case of private slaughterhouses-

(1) the registration, licensing or prohibition thereof, and fees or charges in connexion with such registration or licensing: (i) requirements as to construction, lighting, ventilation and drainage, and as to the periodic painting or limewashing, of the premises or any parts thereof; and

(iii) the control of fees or charges levied for the use of any such slaughterhouse or for the use of any facilities provided thereat.

(2) No regulation made under this section relating to any public slaughterhouse shall be so framed or construed as to deny to any religious community reasonable facilities for obtaining as food the flesh of animals or birds slaughtered by the method specially required by their religion.

78. (1) The Authority may seize, and dispose of in such manner as it may think fit, the carcase, or any part of the carcase, of any of slaughtered animals received into a public slaughterhouse for the purpose of animais. slaughter for food for human consumption which on examination is

unfit carcases

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found to be diseased or unfit for human consumption, and no com- pensation shall be payable to the owner of such carcase or any such part of any such carcase,

(2) Where, in pursuance of the provisions of subsection (1), any carcase or any part of any carcase is scized by the Authority, the Authority shull, before the same is disposed of, cause to be recorded- (a) such description or other particulars as will suffice to identify

such carcase or such part of such carcase; and

(b) the grounds upon which the seizure was effected.

(3) If any person considers himself aggrieved by the seizure of any carcase or any part of any carcase under the provisions of sub- section (1), he may, within seventy two hours after such seizure was effected, complain to the court and the court may confirm or disallow the seizure, either wholly or in part, and shall, in the case of any seizure disallowed, or disallowed in part, order the Authority to restore the carcase, or the part of the carcase, which has been seized, either as to the whole or as to such part in respect of which the seizure was disallowed, or, if the carcase or the part of the carcase in question bas been disposed of or is no longer fit for human consumption, as the case may be, or is depreciated in value by reason of the seizure, order the Authority to pay by way of compensation such sum of money, not exceeding the market value of such carcase or such part of the carcase at the time of the seizure, as the court may, having regard to the circumstances, consider just.

PART VI.

MARKETS AND HAWKERS.

Markets.

79. (1) This Ordinance shall apply to every market, being a Markers to market in which food is sold, which is declared by the Governor to be a

which market to which the Ordinance applies.

(2) In relation to any market situated in the New Territories, the Governor may declare the area to be served thereby.

(3) Any person, other than the Government, who opens or maintains a market in the urban areas shall be guilty of an offence,

Ordinance

applies, etc.

80. (1) The Authority may make regulations in relation to public Regulations markets and private markets prescribing or providing for-

In relation Lo markets.

(a) the grant by lease. licence or permit to any person, or any group or class of persons, of the right to possess or to usc shops, stalls, sheds, pens or standings therein;