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(d) The expression "cattle" includes a bull, cow, ox, heifer, calf,
ram, ewe, wether, goat, and kid ;
(e) The expression "pig" includes a boar, sow, and hog ;
(f ) The expression "meat" means pork, the flesh of cattle, any other
edible part of a pig or of cattle, or a substance, compound
material, or articles of which pork, or the flesh of cattle, or any
other edible part of a pig or of cattle is an ingredient ;
(g) The expression "foreign" used in relation to meat means brought
from a place situate elsewhere than in the United Kingdom, the
Channel Islands, or the Isle of Man ;
(A) The expression "Official Certificate" used in relation to foreign
meat or in relation to a box, case, receptacle, or package
containing foreign meat, means a certificate, label, mark, stamp,
or other voucher which, by a notice published in the London
Gazette at any time during the period of twelve months
beginning on the first day of October, One thousand nine
hundred and eight, or which, on and after the expiration
of that period, by any further Regulations under the Public
Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907, is declared to be
admissible during the said period, or after the expiration of the
said period, in the manner, to the extent, and subject to the
rules and conditions, prescribed in that notice, or in those
Regulations, as evidence that the cattle or pig from which the
meat is derived has been certified by a competent authority in
the place of origin to be free from disease at the time of
slaughter, and that the meat has been certified by the like
authority to have been dressed or prepared and packed with the
needful observance of ail requirements for the prevention of
danger arising to public health from the meat as an article of
food ;
(t) The expression "Foreign Meat of Class." means foreign meat
in the form
(a.) Of scrap meat, namely, meat which, whether it is fresh or has,
before importation, been subjected to a process of freezing or
uther refrigeration, or to chemical or other treatment, with
or without the addition of any preservative or colouring
substance—
(i) consists of scraps, trimmings or other pieces of such
shape or in such condition as to afford insufficient means
of identification with the definite parts of a carcase;