tered, and within an abattoir before they are slaughtered;

(e.) The forms of waybills or delivery notes to be delivered when stock are delivered at an abattoir,

and the preservation and production of the same tc
officers on demand;

(f.) The carriage, storage, and treatment of meat, and
the carriage and treatment of stock generally;
(g) Prohibiting the blowing, except by mechanical means,
or other injurious treatment or preparation of
meat;

(h.) The inspection of places, things and vehicles used
or intended to be used for the storage or carriage
of stock, and the cleansing and disinfection of the
same;

(i.) The cleansing and disinfection of abattoirs, and of utensils, machinery, apparatus, works and things used in connection with the same and with meat therein;

(j.) The removal and disposal of blood, offal, and filth in abattoirs.

(k.) The preservation and production to officers, on demand, of skins, hides or other parts of stock slaughtered.

(1.) The use and treatment of diseased or suspected stock at abattoirs;

(m.) The destruction and disposal of stock affected or infected with disease, or reasonably suspected by any officer to be affected or infected with disease, without compensation to the owners thereof;

(n.) The application or making of any test for the detection of disease in stock;

(0.) The records to be kept and the reports or returns to be made by persons in charge of abattoirs;

(p.) The imposition and collection of fees, charges, rents, and tolls for the use of abattoirs for the purpose of defraying the expenses of inspection and of carrying this Act into effect;

(q.) All other matters and things necessary for the efficient administration of this Act.

(2.) Such regulations shall, on being published in the "Government Gazette," have the force of law, and copies thereof shall be laid before Parliament forthwith, if then sitting, and if not then sitting,

Avoidance of exist ing licenses.

Officers may enter premises.

Offences.

See Q., 1898, No. 23, ss. 22, 23.

Penalties.

sitting, within fourteen days after the commencement of the next ensuing session.

7. On this Act coming into force in any district, every registration of and license issued for any abattoir or slaughter-house within such district under the provisions of the Health Act, 1898, or any other Act, shall become void and of no effect except in the case of any abattoir established before the passing of this Act, and certified in writing by the Minister on the recommendation of the controller within three months after the passing of this Act to be an abattoir fit to continue registered and licensed under the provisions of the Health Act, 1898.

8. Any officer appointed under this Act may at all times enter the premises of any person if such officer has reason to believe that any stock are slaughtered or kept for slaughter on such premises contrary to the regulations made under this Act.

Every person who, by himself or by any person in his employ, or acting by his direction or with his consent, refuses to admit, without any unnecessary delay, any officer demanding to enter any premises in pursuance of this section, commits an offence against this Act.

9. Any person who

(a.) knowingly takes or assists in taking into an abattoir any stock affected with disease;

(b.) resists or obstructs an officer in the course of his

duty;

(c.) refuses to give information or gives false information in answer to any inquiry made by an officer in the course of his duty;

(d.) refuses or neglects to obey the written order of an officer;

(e.) refuses or neglects to deliver any way-bill or delivery note, or to keep any prescribed record or make any prescribed report, or to produce the same on demand when required so to do by an officer, or makes any false entry in any such way-bill, delivery-note, record or report;

(f.) refuses or neglects to give any prescribed notice, commits an offence against this Act.

10. Any person guilty of an offence against this Act, or of a breach of or offence against any regulation made under this Act, shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for any period not exceeding six months.

11.

11. (1.) The Governor may, by Order in Council—

Powers may be

conferred on local

(a.) extend to and confer upon any local authority, or authorities.
any two or more local authorities jointly, the
powers conferred on the Governor by this Act, or
(b.) place any abattoir under the control and management
of any local authority, or of any two or more local
authorities jointly,

and thereupon the powers conferred on the Governor by this Act
may, either generally or in respect of such abattoir, be lawfully
exercised by such local authority or local authorities jointly:

Provided that all regulations made under this Act shall be subject to the approval of the Governor.

(2.) Any local authority to which such Order in Council applies may expend its ordinary revenue for the purposes of this Act.

(3.) Any Order in Council made under this section may, at any time, be revoked by the Governor.

B

[Assented to 4th December, 1909.]

E it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

1. This Act may be cited as the Public Education Endowment Short title. Act, 1909.

2. (1.) The Governor may appoint the Minister of Education, the Power to appoint Inspector General of Schools for the time being, and three other trustees.

8. 2.

fit and proper persons to be the trustees of an endowment for See No. 6 of 1904, Public Education and may, upon the death, resignation, or absence from the State of any trustee, appoint any other fit and proper person a trustee in his place.

(2.) The trustees other than the Minister of Education and the Inspector General of Schools shall be appointed from time to time for not exceeding three years, and shall be eligible for re-appointment.

3. The trustees so appointed shall be a body corporate by the Trustees to be a name of the "Trustees of the Public Education Endowment," and body corporate. by that name shall have perpetual succession and a common seal, No. 6 of 1904, s. 3 and