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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH NOVEMBER, 1886.

3. At any time and from time to time while a Proclama- tion made under Section 2 of this Ordinance is in force, the Governor in Council may make, and when made, alter, add to, or revoke orders in respect of the following matters:-

(1.) Prohibiting the importation or landing of cattle, otherwise than at such times and places, and sub- ject to such conditions regarding inspection, isola- tion and subsequent disposal as may be prescribed by such orders.

(2.) Prohibiting the keeping or having or moving about or selling or slaughtering of any cattle, or the sale of milk or meat or animal refuse of any kind otherwise than subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by such orders.

(3.) Authorising Inspectors of Markets, or any other Officers that may be specified in such orders to destroy or to isolate and keep under observation any cattle that may appear to them to be or to be reasonably suspected of being infected or to have been in contact with or in the same herd as cattle affected with disease.

4. Any proclamation made under the cattle disease Ordi- nance No. 19 of 1885, and not revoked, shall continue in force until the same shall be revoked. The Orders con- tained in Schedule A to this Ordinance shall be the Orders made under the preceding Section until the same shall be revoked by the Governor in Council.

5. The Governor in Council may at his discretion pay out of the public revenues fair compensation for the des- truction of any cattle destroyed under the provisions of this Ordinance, and proved to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council to have been actually in the Colony at any time when the provisions of Section 2 of this Ordinance were brought into force.

6. No person shall bring into the Colony, or drive, carry, transport, remove, or have or keep, or knowingly suffer to be had or kept under his control or on his premises any animal or other creature used for human food in any way which may cause needless or avoidable suffering to such animal or creature.

7. No person shall keep, sell, expose for sale, or bring into the Colony or to any slaughter house or market any food for man or beast which is in an unwholesome condition or unfit for use, nor any cattle which are unfit for slaughter for food for man, nor shall slaughter any such cattle nor permit them to be slaughtered, nor shall give to any cattle any unwholesome fodder nor permit the same to be given.

Cattle Depôts and Slaughter Houses.

8. All animals brought to the Colony for the purpose of being slaughtered shall be kept, except when they may be turned out to graze, in a properly constructed depôt approved by the Surveyor General. Every such depôt shall be subject to such rules as to space, the avoidance of over-crowding, ventilation, sanitary precautions, food, and water, as may be framed by the Governor in Council. No animals shall be turned out to graze when the Inspector of markets shall, for sanitary reasons, forbid such grazing by an order in writing, first approved by the Registrar General.

9. Each slaughter house shall be leased annually by the Registrar General for one year, at the highest rent obtainable, such rent to be ascertained by sealed tenders to be called for by notice in the Government Gazette. The lessee shall enjoy, during the whole of his term, the sole and exclusive privilege of slaughtering animals in such slaughter house, and shall give such security for the pay- ment of the rent thereof and for the due observance of this Ordinance as the Governor in Council may direct.. Always provided that such slaughter house may be leased by the Governor in Council by private contract, or may be managed by any person to be appointed by the Governor in Council whenever, in the opinion of the Governor in Council, such a course is desirable. All contracts entered into for the letting of any slaughter house before the passing of this Ordinance shall continue in force until such contracts shall expire.

Sale of Food, &c.

10. No person shall within the City of Victoria slaughter any animal or dress any carcase thereof for sale except within a slaughter house appointed for that purpose under this Ordinance.

Orders by Governor in Council. (19 of 1885,

B. 2.)

Existing orders continued.

Compensation. (19 of 1885, B. 3.)

Transport of animela.

Unwholesome

food.

(9 of 1858, s. 23 and 24.)

Cattle Depots.

Letting of slaughter houses. (By-laws, 12)

Slaughtering except in alaughter houses prohibited. (9 of 1858, &. 21.)

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