CO129-549-10 Importation of meat products- health certificates 11-6-1934 - 21-11-1934 — Page 24

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expense export the meat or meat product, and within three days after the receipt of the undertaking the importer fails to export it, the Sanitary Authority may cause it to 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.

(3) Where in pursuance of this Article the importer has given an undertaking to prove that any meat or meat product is not intended for sale for human consumption the Sanitary Authority shall within twenty-four hours after the receipt of the undertaking take steps to obtain the decision of a Justice with respect thereto.

13. (1) Where in pursuance of Article 11 of these regula- tions the Officer of Customs and Excise or the Medical Officer of Health has given a notice forbidding the removal of any article of food such article of food shall not be removed by any person contrary to the terins of the notice except with the express permission of the Officer by whom the notice was given.

(2) A person shall not land any meat or meat product which has been exported in compliance with an undertaking given under these regulations or under any similar regulations then in force in any part of the British Islands.

4. The following provision shall be substituted for Article 15 (1) (b) of the Principal Regulations as amended by the regulations of 1933 :—

(b) in the case of any meat or meat product in respect of which an undertaking in that behalf has been given under Article 12 that the importer has failed to prove that the meat or meat product is not intended for sale for human consumption.

5. For the Schedules to the Principal Regulations as amended by the regulations of 1933 there shall be substituted the Schedule to these regulations.

6. The regulations of 1933 are hereby revoked but without prejudice to any proceedings begun or other action taken in pur- suance thereof.

7. Copies of the Principal Regulations printed under the authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office may be printed with any additions, omissions or substitutions directed to be made by these or any other amending regulations but with a footnote in each instance referring to such amending regulations and the Principal Regulations so printed may be cited as the Public Health (Imported Food) Regulations.

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SCHEDULE.

PROHIBITED MEAT.

Any of the following kinds of meat:-

(a) Scrap meat, 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 carcase.

(b) Meat comprising the wall of the thorax or abdomen from which pleural or, except in the case of meat derived from a pig, peritoneal membrane has been detached;

(c) Meat from which a lymphatic gland has been taken out, other than a lymphatic gland unavoidably detached in the removal of peritoneal membrane in the case of meat derived from a pig; and

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

Given under the official seal of the Minister of Health this

day of

nineteen hundred and

thirty-four.

J

Assistant Secretary,

Ministry of Health.

Signed by order of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise.

Assistant Secretary for

LONDON

Customs and Excise.

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1934

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