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consumption, shall not cause or permit the carcase of the
animal, including the mesentery and internal organs other
than the stomach, intestines and bladder, to be removed from
the place of slaughter until such carcase with its organs has
been inspected, or its removal has been authorised, by an
Inspector of the Local Authority:
Provided that—
(1) This Article shall not apply in the case of a sheep or
in the case of any animal in respect of whose
slaughter special notice is not required to be given
by reason of proviso (1) to Article 8, unless some
part of the carcase or organs appears to be diseased
or unsound;
(2) The removal may in any case take place at the
expiration of three hours from the time of slaughter
or six hours from the delivery of any notice relating
thereto under Article 8 or 9 whichever time
may be later, save that if such time falls between
7 p.m. on one day and 7 a.m on the next day,
the removal shall not take place before 7 a.m.;
(3) Where the animal was slaughtered by reason of
accidental injury and the place of slaughter is unsuitable
for the retention of the carcase, the carcase
and organs may be removed to some convenient place,
but the notice required to be given under Article 8
shall be given to the Local Authority in whose district
that place is situated and Article 8 of this
Article shall have effect as if that place were
substituted for the place of slaughter.
11.—(1) The notices to be given to the Local Authority
under Articles 8 and 9 of these Regulations shall be given to
such officer and delivered at such address as the Local
Authority may direct and in the absence of any such direction
shall be given to the Medical Officer of Health and
delivered at his office. The effect of any direction given
under this paragraph shall be communicated to the occupier
of every slaughter-house in the district and published in one
or more local newspapers circulated within the district.
(2) Any such notice, other than a notice of regular
slaughtering, may be given orally; and any such notice may
be served by letter addressed to the proper officer and
delivered at, or prepaid and posted to, the proper address,
and in the case of a notice sent by post shall for the purposes
of these Regulations be deemed to have been delivered at the
time at which it would have been delivered in the ordinary
course of the postal service.
12.—(1) No gut-scraping, tripe-cleaning, manufacture or
preparation of articles of food for man or for animals,