Firm Schedule.
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"employee" includes every person working in a poultry export
factory, whether or not employed by the licensee; "equipment" includes all machinery, plant, tools, utensils, implements, conveyor systems, carts, trolleys, trucks, instru- ments, bins, containers, electrical and gas fittings, taps, faucets, drains, pipes, tanks, cisterns, basins, latrines, urinals, furnishings and other equipment of any kind in a poultry export factory:
"export" means to take or send out of Hong Kong by any means; "export certificate" means an export certificate or any copy thereof
issued by an inspector under regulation 110;
"food" means food for human consumption;
“inspector” means a public officer appointed as an inspector under
section 17 of the Ordinance;
"licence" means a licence granted under paragraph (1) of regula-
tion 5:
"licensee" means a person who holds a licence granted to him and
also means a deputy appointed under regulation 10;
"packing material" includes all material used—
(a) to pack or wrap carcasses or poultry products; or (b) to line containers in which carcasses or poultry products
are packed;
"poultry export factory" means a place used or intended to be used
for any or all of the following purposes, namely-
(a) the slaughter of poultry the carcasses or products of which are intended for export to a country specified in the First Schedule;
(b) the inspection or processing of carcasses or poultry
products intended for export to such a country:
"poultry product" means food prepared from edible parts of
poultry in combination with other edible substances;
"premises" includes——
(a) all buildings which are part of a poultry export factory;
and
(b) all loading bays or other places where carcasses or poultry products are loaded into vehicles for removal from a poultry export factory:
"process" includes any act. other than cooking, done in the
preparation, preservation or packing of-
(a) a carcass; or
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(b) a poultry product.
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which is intended for human consumption;
"unwholesome" in relation to a carcass or poultry products means— (a) unsound, injurious to health or otherwise rendered unfit
for food:
(6) filthy, putrid or decomposed;
(c) processed or stored under insanitary conditions so that the carcass or poultry product may become contaminated with filth or be rendered injurious to health; or (d) packaged in a container, wrapper or can composed of or containing any poisonous or deleterious substance which may render the carcass or poultry product injurious to human health.
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PART II
LICENSING.
(1) No person shall export, attempt to export or permit Control of the export of, any carcasses or poultry products to a country specified in the First Schedule unless-
(a) the carcasses are of poultry slaughtered in a poultry export factory in accordance with these regulations;
(b) the poultry used in the preparation of the poultry
products has been so slaughtered;
(c) the carcasses or poultry products, as the case may be, have been processed and inspected in a poultry export factory in accordance with these regulations; and
(d) at the time when he exports or attempts to export the carcasses or poultry products there exists an export certificate in respect of such carcasses or poultry products.
(2) No person shall-
(a) slaughter poultry the carcasses or products of which he knows are intended to be exported to a country specified in the First Schedule: or
(b) process carcasses or poultry products which he knows
are intended to be so exported,
other than in a poultry export factory in accordance with these regulations.
export of carcasses and poultry products to specified
countries. Fin: Sabedule.
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