1964_IMPORTED_GAME__MEAT_AND_POULTRY_REGULATIONS — Page 4

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CAP. 132]

Imported Game, Meat and Poultry Regulations

[1989 Ed.

[Subsidiary]

(5) No transhipment certificate shall be required in respect of meat or poultry imported into Hong Kong in sealed refrigerated containers, where the person who imports the meat or poultry establishes to the satisfaction of a health officer that the seals of the containers have remained intact and have not been tampered with in any manner in the course of their journey from the country of origin to Hong Kong.

(L.N. 116 of 1989)

5.

Procedure for export, destruction or disposal of game, meat, poultry or prohibited meat imported in contravention of regulation 4

(1) If upon the report of a health inspector who has examined any game, meat, poultry or prohibited meat it appears to a health officer that-

(a) the meat or poultry is being or has been imported in contravention of regulation 4(1)(a) or (2); or

(b) the official certificate or the transhipment certificate accompanying the meat or poultry is incorrect or does not apply to Hong Kong, or

(c) although accompanied by an official certificate and a transhipment certificate, where such is required, the meat or poultry is unfit for human consumption, unsound or unwholesome; or

(d) game or prohibited meat has been imported without the permission of a health officer; or

(e) any condition imposed under regulation 4(1)(b) or (2) has not been complied with; or

(f) although game, meat, poultry or prohibited meat has been imported in accordance with regulation 4(1)(b) or (2) as the case may be, any condition or direction referred to in regulation 4(3) has not been complied with or it is unfit for human consumption, unsound or unwholesome,

the health officer shall by notice in writing addressed to the person in possession of the imported game, meat, poultry or prohibited meat direct that such person shall either surrender such game, meat, poultry or prohibited meat to the Authority or shall export it to its country of origin, in which event the person shall not part with possession of such game, meat, poultry or prohibited meat until it is exported.

(L.N. 116 of 1989)

(2) A notice under subregulation (1) shall state-

(a) that within the time specified in the notice, being not less than 48 hours after the notice is received, the person in possession of the imported game, meat, poultry or prohibited meat shall undertake in writing that, within 30 days from the date of the undertaking, he will either surrender the game, meat, poultry or prohibited meat to the Authority or export it to its country of origin; and

(b) ...

(L.N. 116 of 1989)