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Citation and CONTUTIENCe- ment,

Loverprela- tion.

PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE, 1960. (No. 30 of 1960),

IMPORTED MEAT AND POULTRY REGULATIONS, 1962.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 55 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, the Governor in Counci has made the following regulations-

1. These regulations may be cited as the Imported Meat and Poultry Regulations, 1962, and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by Proclamation in the Gazette.

3. In these regulations, save where the context otherwis requires- "competent authority" means any authority, having power under the laws in force in any country to examine articles of food and to certify as to their fitness for human consumption, which is for the time being recognized by the Governor for the purpose of ther regulations;

"import" nicans to bring or cause to be brought into the Colony by

land. air or water;

"meat" means the fresh or frozen flesh or other edible part of an animal "official certificate". when used in relation to meat, means a certificate issued by a competent authority in respect of any oversea meat showing--

(a) that the meat to which it relates was derived from animals!

inspected ants and post mortem and passed in accordance with criteria satisfactory to the Governor; and

(b) that all necessary precautions for the prevention of danger to public health were taken in the dressing or preparing and packing of the mcat;

"official certificate", when used in relation to poultry, means a certificate issued by a competent authority in respect of any oversea poultry showing that the poultry to which it relates was inspected and found to be fit for human consumption and was packed under sanitary conditions;

"oversea" means brought from a place situated elsewhere than in the

Colony:

"poultry" means the fresh or frozen carcass of a domestic fowl, duck. goose or lurkey and also means fresh or frozen parts of any such

carcass;

"prohibited meat" means any of the kinds of oversea meat specified in

the Schedule.

Schedule.

3. (1) The recognition by the Governor of a competent authority Recognition for the purposes of these regulations shall be subject to such conditions of official

certificates. as he may specify and may be varied or cancelled by him at any time. (2) A notification of the recognition by the Governor of any competent authority, together with any conditions to which such recogni- tion is subject, and of the variation or cancellation of any such recogni- tion shall be published in the Gazette.

4. Save with the permission in writing of the Director of Medical Restriction and Health Services or any public officer authorized in that behalf by on the bim, no person shall import-

(a) any prohibited meat;

(b) any oversea meat without an official certificate; or

(c) any oversea poultry without an official certificate.

import

meat, meal products and ponitry.

5. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of regula- Penalties. tion 4 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for three months.

ceedings may

6. Without prejudice to the provisions of any other enactment Name in relating to the prosecution of criminal offences and without prejudice which pro to the powers of the Attorney General in relation to the prosecution of be brought. such offences, prosecutions for an offence under any of the provisions of these regulations may be brought in the name of the Urban Council.

SCHEDULE.

Prohibited Meat.

[reg. 2.1

(0) Scrap mest, that is to say, meat which consists of scraps, trimmings or other pieces (whether with or without bone) of such shape or in such condition as to afford insufficient means of identification with a definite part of a carcass.

(5) Meat comprising the wall of the thorax or abdomen from which there has been detached any part of the pleura or (save in the case of meat derived from a pig) the peritoneum, other than a part necessarily removed in preparing the meat.

(c) Meat, other than mution and lamb, from which a lymphatic gland, except a gland necessarily removed in preparing the meat, has been lated out.

(d) The head of an animal without the submaxillary gland.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

20th March, 1962,

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Clerk of Councils.