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PUBLIC HEALTH (MEAT) REGULATIONS, 1924.
The Public Health (Meat) Regulations, 1924, dated December 20th, 1924,
made by the Minister of Health under the Public Health (Regulations as to Food)
Act, 1907, came into force on the 1st of April.
Since the Regulations deal as regards—
Part II. Slaughter-houses and Slaughtering ;
,, III. Meat Marking;
„ IV. Stalls;
,, V. Shops, Stores, etc.;
,, VI. Transport and Handling;
the greater part of the Regulations have no proper application to Port Sanitary
work.
Certain meat stores and much transport and handling of frozen meat come
under the survey of your Medical Officer, therefore, the Port Sanitary Authority
has been made an enforcing Authority for certain purposes by Articles 3 and 4.
"Article 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."
"Article 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."
Part VI. " Transport and Handling," reads as follows:—
21.—(1) Every person who conveys or causes to be conveyed
any meat in a vehicle—
(a) shall cause to be kept clean the inside and covering of
the vehicle, the receptacles in which the meat is placed
and such parts of any slings or other implements or
apparatus used for loading or unloading as come into
contact with the meat or its covering; and
(b) if the vehicle is open at the top, back, or sides, or if
any other commodity is being conveyed therein, shall
cause the meat to be adequately protected by means of
a clean cloth or other suitable material;
(c) shall not permit any live animal to be conveyed in the
vehicle at the same time as meat.
(2) A person engaged in the handling of transport of meat—
(a) shall not permit any part of the meat to come into
contact with the ground ; and
(b) shall take such other precautions as are reasonably
necessary to prevent the exposure of the meat to
contamination.
(3) Every person who employs a person to carry meat in or about a
market or other place in which meat is sold by wholesale or in or about
any place wholly or mainly used for the storage of meat before it is distributed
to retailers, shall cause such person while so occupied to wear,
and every person while so occupied shall wear, a clean and washable
head covering and overall.
(4) This Article shall not apply to any meat which is packed in
hampers or other strongly constructed and impervious cases or is
adequately wrapped in jute or some other stout fabric.
For many years your Inspectors have from time to time performed functions
for which they had no regular authority but which were similar to those embodied
in Parts V. and VI. of these Regulations.