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METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.
The Slaughterhouses, &c., (Metropolis) Act, 1874,
37 and 38 Vic., c. 67.
BYE.Laws for regulating the conduct of the business of a
slaughterer ot cattle, i.e., a person whose business
it is to kill any description of cattle, including sheep,
goats, or swine, killed for the purpose of its flesh
being used as butchers' meat, and the structure of
the premises on which such business is being carried
on, and the mode in which application is to be made
for sanction to establish such business anew, within
the limits of the Metropolis (except the City of London
and the liberties thereof.)
In pursuance of the above Act, by which the Metropolitan
Board of Works is constituted the Local Authority
for the Metropolis (except the City of London and the
liberties thereof), the said Metropolitan Board of Works
(for the purposes of these Bye.laws called the "Board")
doth hereby make the following Bye.laws ; but it is to be
understood that nothing in such Bye laws shall in any
way lessen or otherwise affect the statutory authority now
vested in the Vestries and District Boards, or their officers,
in relation to slaughter-houses. Throughout, and for the D';flllltions
purposes of these Bye-laws " the premises " shall include
the slaughter-house and all the premises used for the
business of a " slaughterer of cattle; " and slaughterhouse
" shall mean the portion of the premises used for
the slaughtering and dressing of cattle; "occupier"
shall mean the occupier of premises where the business
of a slaughterer of cattle is carried on ; and " slaughterer
of cattle " shall mean a person whose business it is to
kill any description of cattle, including sheep, goats, or
swine, which is killed for the purpose of its flesh being
used as butchers' meat.