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Goods and personal effects not to be kept in unapproved

places.

Power of

authorized officer to give directions as to use of water, steam, elec-

tricity and ventilating equipment.

Offences

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(3) Any person who smokes or uses a naked flame or light in contravention of an order under paragraph (1) shall be guilty of An offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.

39. (1) No person shall keep goods or personal effects in an abatloir except in a place approved for the purpose by the manager.

(2) Any person who contravenes paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence.

(3) The manager may direct any person appearing to him to be the owner of any goods or personal effects kept in the abattoir in contravention of paragraph (1) to remove them forthwith from the abattoir or to an approved place therein.

(4) IF

(2) any person fails to comply within forty-eight hours with

a direction under paragraph (3), or

(b) the manager is satisfied that the owner of any goods or personal effects stored in contravention of paragraph (1) cannot be ascertained or found,

the manager may cause the goods or personal effects to be dis posed of in such manner as he thinks fit.

40. (1) An authorized officer may- (a) prohibit, or

(b) give directions to any person in an abattoir in respect of, the use of any supply of water, steam or electricity, or any water, steam, electrical or ventilating equipment in an abattoir.

(2) Any person who uses or interferes with- (a) any supply of water, steam or electricity, or (6) any water, steam, electrical or ventilating equipment,

in contravention of a prohibition or direction under paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for one month.

41. Any person who-

(a) obstructs any other person making lawful use of an abattoir or of any facilities or services provided therein,

or

(b) without lawful authority interferes with any equipment

provided in an abattoir.

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for one month.

42. Any person who-

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(a) spits, urinates or deposits any refuse in an abattoir, other-

wise than in a place provided for the purpose,

(b) puis up or affixes any notice or poster in an abattoir, except with the consent of the manager and in a place provided for the purpose, or

(c) without the consent of the manager, brings into or keeps

in an abattoir any intoxicating liquor or drug.

shall be guilty of an offence.

PART VI

MISCELLANEOUS.

43. Any person who, in any form required by, under or for the purposes of these by-laws, makes any statement or furnishes any information which he knows or reasonably ought to know to be false in a material particular shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.

44. (1) Except as provided in by-laws 28 and 29, no person shall mark the carcase or the offal of an animal, whether or not it has been slaughtered in an abattoir, with a mark specified in the Sixth Schedule or with a mark so closely resembling a mark specified in the Sixth Schedule as to be likely to mislead.

(2) Any person who contravenes paragraph (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.

45. Every person who commits an offence under these by- laws for which no other penalty is provided shall be liable on conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars.

Further offences.

Offence to give false information.

Offence to use or imitate marks in Sixth Schedule.

General penalty,

(Cap. 1393

46. Nothing in these by-laws shall be deemed to derogate Saving. from or in any way affect the provisions of the Public Health (Animals and Birds) Ordinance.

[by-law 2.]

FIRST SCHEDULE.

SPECIFIED ABATTOIRS.

Name of abattoir.

Address.

1.

Kennedy Town Abattoir.

Victoria Road, Hong Kong.