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PUBLIC HEALTH (IMPORTED MEAT) REGULATIONS 1956

SR&O 4 / 1956

[made under section 170 of the Public Health Act 1949 and brought into operation on 10 May 1956]

Citation

1 These regulations may be cited as the Public Health (Imported Meat) Regulations

1956.

Interpretation

2 In these regulations— “meat” means the flesh or other edible part of an animal and includes uncooked meat prepared or otherwise, but does not include meat products; “meat products” means—

(i) meat which has been cooked or otherwise prepared;

(ii) meat packed in airtight containers;

(iii) rendered animal fats;

(iv) pies, sausages or other prepared or manufactured articles food containing any meat or cooked or dried meat; or

(v) poultry, game either whole or predressed and packed; “official certificate” means a certificate, label, mark, stamp or other voucher which is furnished by a competent authority in respect of any fresh meat, or package containing any such meats, and which certificate is for the time being recognized by the Minister as showing—

PUBLIC HEALTH (IMPORTED MEAT) REGULATIONS 1956

(i) that the meat to which it relates was derived from animals inspected both ante and post mortem and passed in accordance with criteria satisfactory to the Chief Environmental Health Officer; or

(ii) that all necessary precautions for the prevention of danger to public health were taken in the dressing or preparing and packing of such meat; and “prohibited meat” includes:

(i) scrap meat, trimmings or other pieces with or without bone, of such shape or condition as to afford insufficient means of identification with a definite part of a carcass;

(ii) meat comprising the wall of the thorax or abdomen from which any part of the pleura or, except in the case of a pig, the peritoneum has been detached, other than a part necessarily removed in preparing the meat;

(iii) meat from which a lymphatic gland, except a gland necessarily removed in preparing the meat, has been removed; and

(iv) the head of an animal without submaxillary glands. [ Regulation 2 definition "official certificate" amended by 2018 : 66 s.2 effective 10 January 2019]

Restrictions on importation of meat

3 No person shall import, or cause to be imported, prohibited meat; and no person shall import, or cause to be imported, meat, other than prohibited meat, unless he is in possession of an official certificate in respect thereof.

Offences

4 Any person contravening these regulations commits an offence against these regulations: Punishment on summary conviction: a fine of $420 and the meat or prohibited meat in respect of which the conviction was imposed, shall be ordered to be confiscated by the Court imposing the conviction.

[Amended by:

1970 : 390.

2018 : 66]