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he shall not suffer it to be removed, but shall forthwith give information thereof to the
Board, and to the Cattle Inspector for the District, appointed under the Contagious
Diseases (Animals) Act, 1869, with all details in his knowledge as to the name and
address of the person bringing the horse or animal, and the owner and the place from
which the same was brought, and the time when it was brought.
11. The occupier shall allow every Member of the Board, in addition to all other
persons lawfully entitled to admission, to haVe free access to the premises during the
time of slaughter, and at all reasonable hours.
12. The occupier, if he neglect or omit to observe or perform or shall in any way
break any one of the above Bye-laws, shall be subject to a penalty of the sum of £3, and
in the case of a continuing offence the sum of £1 for every day during which such offence
is continued after a conviction for the first offence.
13. Every Court of Summary Jurisdiction, as defined by the Slaughter Houses, &c.
(Metropolis) Act, 1874, having jurisdiction to hear and decide complaints of the breach
of the above Bye-laws, may, by Summary Order, suspend or deprive any Knacker
altogether of the right of carrying on any such business, as a penalty for the breach of
any one of the above Bye-laws.
As to the structure of the premises upon which the business of a Knacker
is carried on.
14. The occupier shall cause the slaughter house to be provided with an adequate
tank or other proper receptacle for water and water supply, and so placed that the bottom
thereof shall not be less than 6 feet above the level of the floor; and shall cause the
slaughter house to be well and thoroughly ventilated.
15. The occupier shall cause the slaughter house to be well paved with asphalte, or
flag-stone, or proper paving bricks, set in cement, to be laid with proper slope and
channel towards a gully, and to be effectually drained by an adequate drain of glazed
pipes or in other sufficient manner communicating with the public sewer, and the gully
to be trapped by an appropriate trap, and to be covered with a grating, the bars of which
shall not be more than three-eighths of an inch apart.
16. The occupier shall cause every inner wall of a slaughter house to be covered with
hard, smooth impervious material to the height of four feet at the least, and to be always
kept in good order and repair.
17. The occupier shall cause all needful works and repairs to the premises to be
forthwith done and executed as and when the same shall become requisite ; and shall not
allow any alteration whatsoever to be made in respect of the paving, drainage, ventilation,
or water supply to or in the premises which have been licensed, without the consent of
this Board.
18. The occupier, if he neglect or omit to observe or perform, or shall in any way
break any one of the Bye-laws as to the structure of the premises, shall be subject to a
penalty of the sum of £5, and in the case of a continuing offence, the sum of £1 for
every day during which such offence is continued after a conviction for the first offence.
Sealed by Order,
Spring Gardens, J. E. WAKEFIELD,
February 4th, 1876. Clerk of the Board.
Allowed by the Local Government Board, this 28th day of February, 1876.
THOS. SALT, Secretary. G. SCLATER-BOOTH, President.