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THE PUBLIC HEALTH (FOREIGN MEAT) AMENDING
REGULATIONS, 1909.
It having been found, as the result of experience in their working, that the
Public Health (Foreign Meat) Regulations, 1908, made by the Local Government
Board under the Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907, on
the 12th September, 1908, required some addition to, or amendment, the Board
issued, under date 27th September, 1909, further Regulations, modifying
in certain particulars those of 1908.
These amending Regulations, which may be cited as the Public Health
(Foreign Meat) Amending Regulations, 1909, are to be read into the
Regulations of 1908 and into any order made under Article XVI. of those
Regulations. (Article XVI. refers, in the case of the City, to the order
relating to joint action on the part of the Port Sanitary Authority and the
Corporation as the Sanitary Authority for the City.)
The following are the additions and amendments comprised in the Amendment
Order:—
Of the eighteen articles contained in the Regulations of the 12th September,
1908, Article I. only has been varied. This Article contains the definition of
foreign meat for the purpose of the Regulation. The substituted Article
follows verbatim the terms of Article I. of the Regulations of 1908, except in
the cases of paragraphs (h), (i), (j), (k) and (o). (See Appendix, page 162.)*
The effect of these amendments is thatcertain "official certificates," declared
admissible by notices published in the "London Gazette" for purposes referred
to in Article I. of the Regulations of 1908 during the period ending on the
30th September, 1909, will continue to be admissible until by a further notice
published in the "London Gazette" it is declared to be so no longer,
and the same will apply to any further "official certificates " that may be
approved by the Local Government Board:
The "official certificates" now recognised relate to meat imported from the
following countries—Canada, Denmark, Netherlands, New Zealand, Belgium,
Victoria and New South Wales.
Scrap meat or trimmings of carcases which contain bone are occasionally
imported, which must be considered open to the same objections which attach
to the importation of boneless scrap meat. The Amending Regulations apply
to meat which consists of scraps, trimmings or other pieces of such shape and
such condition as to afford insufficient means of identification, and the
restrictions with regard to boneless meat of this class have been extended to
such scraps, trimmings, &c., whether or not bone is present.
* The full text of the Foreign Meat Regulations of the 12th September, 1908, to which these amendments
relate, is given on page 195 of your Medical Officer's Annual Report for that year.