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amended by the regulations of 1933 there shall be substituted the following definitions:-
Animal includes a bull, cow, ox, heifer, calf, ram, ewe, wether, lamb, goat, kid, boar, sow and hog.
Meat means the flesh or other edible part of an animal and includes meat which has been cooked, cured or otherwise treated.
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Meat product means any article of food, other than margarine, which is prepared from meat or of which meat is an ingredient.
Prohibited meat means any of the kinds of oversea meat specified in the Schedule to these regulations.
Official certificate " means a certificate, label, mark, stamp or other voucher which is affixed by a competent authority in the country of origin to any oversea meat or meat product, or to a package containing any such meat or meat product, and is for the time being recognised by the Minister as evidence that the meat to which it relates, or the meat comprised in the meat product to which it relates, has been derived from animals which were free from disease at the time of slaughter and that all necessary precautions for the prevention of danger to public health have been taken in the dressing or preparing and packing of the meat or meat product.
3. The following provisions shall be substituted for Part III of the Principal Regulations as amended by the regulations of 1933 :-
PART III-OVERSEA MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS.
10. A person shall not import into England or Wales for sale for human consumption (a) any prohibited meat, or (b) any other meat or meat product without an official certificate.
11. (1) The Officer of Customs and Excise on the arrival of a ship within the district shall ascertain whether the cargo of the ship comprises any oversea meat or meat product,
(2) Where it appears to the Officer of Customs and Excise to be desirable that any oversea article of food should be examined by the Medical Officer of Health either with a view to ascertaining whether it comprises any prohibited meat or any other meat or meat product without an official certificate or for any other purpose of these regulations he shall by a
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notice in writing given to the Master or to the importer require that until the article has been examined by the Medical Officer of Health it shall not be removed from the place specified in the notice and he shall at the same time inform the Medical Officer of Health of the effect of the notice.
(3) The Medical Officer of Health shall forthwith examine any article of food in respect of which a notice has been given by an Officer of Customs and Excise under this Article.
(4) If upon the examination of any oversea article of food the Medical Officer of Health is of opinion that it comprises any prohibited meat or any other meat or meat product with- out an official certificate he shall by a notice in writing forbid its removal for any purpose other than its exportation.
He shall send a copy of every such notice to the Sanitary Authority and where the Officer of Customs and Excise has given a notice under this Article in respect of such article of food he shall also send a copy to that Officer.
(5) If upon the examination of any article of food in respect of which the Officer of Customs and Excise has given a notice under this Article the Medical Officer of Health is of opinion that it either has an official certificate or is not meat or a meat product, that it does not comprise any prohibited meat and that it is not diseased or sound or unwholesome or unfit for human consumption he shall give a certificate authorising its removal and he shall give a copy of the certificate to the Officer of Customs and Excise.
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12. (1) The Sanitary Authority, within twelve hours after the receipt of a copy of a notice by the Medical Officer of Health given in pursuance of paragraph (4) of Article 11 of these regulations with respect to any oversea meat meat product, shall give to the importer notice in writing that, unless, within the time specified in the notice not being less than twelve hours after the receipt thereof he gives a written undertaking to export the expense, or to prove in proceedings before a Justice that it is not intended for sale for human consumption, it will be destroyed or disposed of under the supervision of the Medical Officer of Health by such means and in such a manner as to prevent its being used for human consumption.
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(2) If within the time specified in the notice, the Sanitary Authority have not received such a written undertaking as is described in the notice or if within that time they have received an undertaking that the importer will at his own
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