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"Local Authority" means the Common Council of
the City of London, the Council of a Metropolitan
Borough, the Council of a Municipal Borough or other
Urban District, the Council of a Rural District or the
Council of the Isles of Scilly;
"Medical Officer of Health" includes any person
temporarily acting in that capacity;
"Inspector" means the Medical Officer of Health or
any other Officer of a Local Authority, having under the
Acts relating to Public Health or any Local Act power
to inspect and examine meat intended for the food of
man;
"Meat" means the flesh of cattle, swine, sheep, or
goats, including bacon and ham and edible offal and
fat, which is sold or intended for sale for human consumption,
and "animal" means any animal from
which meat is derived;
"Slaughter-house" means such part of a slaughterhouse,
as defined in Section 4 of the Public Health Act,
1875, (a) as is used for the slaughtering of animals or
the dressing or hanging of carcases for human
consumption;
"Stall" includes any stall barrow or vehicle from
which meat is offered for sale in a street or other open
space or in any market place;
"Room" includes a shop cellar passage or other
space forming the whole or part of a building other than
a slaughter-house as above defined;
"Vehicle" includes a railway or other van or waggon
and a ship or barge but does not include any separate
compartment thereof in which meat is not being
conveyed.
(2) The Interpretation Act, 1889, (a) applies to the interpretation
of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation
of an Act of Parliament.
3. The Local Authority shall enforce and execute the
provisions of these Regulations in their district:
Provided that a Port Sanitary Authority shall also be an
authority for enforcing and executing the provisions of Part
VI within their district.
4. The Medical Officer of Health, the Sanitary Inspector
and any other officer of a Local Authority or Port Sanitary
Authority duly authorised by the Authority in writing shall
for the purpose of ascertaining whether these Regulations are
being observed have power at all reasonable times to enter
and inspect any slaughter-house, room or other place and any
stall or vehicle to which these Regulations apply.