The Metropolitan Abattoirs Act.-1908. 54. After the date specified in such notice, and while such abattoirs are available for slaughtering stock (1) No person shall, within the metropolitan abattoirs area, (a) slaughter or allow or cause to be slaughtered any stock for sale for human consumption, or dress or allow or cause to be dressed any carcass for sale, or sell or attempt to sell or expose for sale, or allow or cause to be sold or exposed for sale, any carcass or meat not slaughtered at such abattoirs, or, if slaughtered without the metropolitan abattoirs area, the carcass of which, together with the pleura and the peritoneum, lungs, heart, kidneys, tongue, and such other organs as are prescribed, attached in natural connection, and, in the case of cows, the udder also so attached, has not been first brought to the abattoirs or to some other premises established by the Board for that purpose within Hindmarsh, Gawler, Grey, or Young ward of the City of Adelaide, and inspected and branded by an inspector, as provided in section 70, or (b) slaughter at any slaughterhouse or abattoir exempted under section 55 or 80 any stock, except for export or for meat to be tinned or cured for export, or for curing as bacon and ham: Penalty-First offence, Ten Pounds; second offence, Twentyfive Pounds; and for each succeeding offence Fifty Pounds. (2) No person shall sell or attempt to sell, or expose for sale, or allow or cause to be sold or exposed for sale the flesh of any calf, less than twenty-one days old or of less weight than forty pounds; and in any prosecution under this subsection the onus of proving age shall be on the defendant: Penalty-First offence, Ten Pounds; second offence, Twentyfive Pounds; and each succeeding offence, Fifty Pounds. (3) Where, in contravention of the provisions of subsection (2) of this (5) Nothing in this Act shall protect any person who sells or (6) For The Metropolitan Abattoirs Act.-1908. (6) For the purposes of this section such abattoirs shall be deemed to be available for slaughtering stock at all times except during such times as the Board shall by public notice declare such abattoirs to be closed to the slaughtering of stock: PART IV. than at abattoirs. (7) It shall not be an offence under this Act to slaughter poultry No offence to slaughter elsewhere than at the abattoirs, or to sell or expose or offer poultry elsewhere for sale within the metropolitan abattoirs area, any poultry so slaughtered. 55. On the day specified in any such notice given pursuant to Private abattoirs section 53 hereof, all private abattoirs or slaughter-houses within closed. the metropolitan abattoirs area shall be closed by the owner, occupier, or person having the control or management thereof, notwithstanding the fact that licences in respect thereof have been issued by any of the constituent Corporations or Councils or by any Board of Health. And after such day specified as aforesaid no constituent Corporation or Council shall, nor shall any Board of Health, save as is in this section provided, issue any licence or licences for the slaughtering of stock: Provided that this section shall not apply to any slaughter-house or abattoir used or intended to be used only for the purpose of slaughtering stock for export, or for meat to be tinned or canned for export, or for curing bacon and hams. houses. 56. (1) Compensation shall be paid to the owners of all private Compensation to abattoirs and slaughterhouses closed by the operation of the next owners of slaughter. preceding section, and which were in use as abattoirs or slaughterhouses at the time of the passing of this Act: Provided that no compensation shall be paid in respect of any abattoir or slaughterhouse which is not suitable for use as such; and that in estimating the compensation to be paid in respect of any abattoir or slaughterhouse a fair deduction shall be made on account of the value of the buildings and equipment thereof for any other purpose, and that nothing shall be allowed for goodwill or loss of business: And provided further that the aggregate of the amounts to be paid by way of compensation shall not exceed the sum of Seven Thousand Pounds. (2) Any compensation to be paid in respect of any abattoir or slaughterhouse shall be paid by the Board out of any of its moneys, including borrowed moneys. (3) No claim for compensation shall be considered, nor shall any amount be paid in respect thereof, unless within twenty-one days after the publication in the Government Gazette of the notice given pursuant to section 53 hereof, the claimant delivers to the secretary of the Board a notice in writing, stating the amount and particulars of his claim and the premises in respect of which such claim is made. C-957 (4) The Claims for compensatwenty-one days. tion to be made within PART IV. by the Government. The Metropolitan Abattoirs Act.-1908. (4) The Governor shall, as soon as practicable after the publiValuer to be appointed cation of the notice given pursuant to section 53 hereof, appoint a valuer to determine all claims for compensation made in accordance with this section. The fees and expenses of such valuer shall be fixed by the Governor and paid by the Board. Duties of valuer. Valuer to determine reductions in rent. No appeal from determination. Slaughtermen to be licensed by Board. Licence may be cancelled by Board. Licensed slaughtermen to report disease discovered in stock. (5) The valuer shall consider and inquire into all claims made as aforesaid, and shall as to each claim determine, by writing under his hand delivered to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, whether any and (if any) what amount is payable under subsection (1) of this section in respect thereof; and in making each determination the valuer shall have regard to the limit of Seven Thousand Pounds fixed by the said subsection (1). (6) If any abattoir or slaughterhouse in respect of which the valuer determines that compensation is to be paid is let at the time of the determination, the valuer shall also determine, by writing under his hand delivered to the said Commissioner, what reduction ought to be made in the rent; and the rent accrued or to accrue for any period after the closing of the abattoir or slaughterhouse shall be reduced accordingly: Provided that if any reduction is made under this subsection in the rent of any premises, the lessee or his successor in title shall have the option of continuing the lease at the reduced rent or of cancelling the lease. (7) Any determination by the valuer under subsection (5) or subsection (6) of this section shall be absolutely final and not subject to any appeal or to be questioned in any way whatever. 57. No person shall act or be permitted to act as slaughterman, or as attendant or assistant to any slaughterman, at the abattoirs, unless and until and so long as he is licensed by the Board. The licence shall be granted for a period of not more than one year, and the fee for a slaughterman's licence shall not exceed Two Pounds Two Shillings, and for an attendant's or assistant's licence Ten Shillings; and no person under the age of seventeen years shall be licensed as a slaughterman's attendant or assistant: Provided that the Board may employ slaughtermen, attendants, and assistants at the abattoirs without licensing them. Penalty, Ten Pounds. 58. (1) Any licence issued under the last preceding section may be cancelled by the Board if the licensee shall omit forthwith to report to an inspector any case of disease which manifests itself in any stock slaughtered by such licensee, or for incapacity, misconduct, insobriety, or dirty habits. (2) The secretary of the Board may at any time suspend the operation of the licence of any licensee alleged to be incapable, or guilty of misconduct, insobriety, or dirty habits, until the next meeting of the Board. 59. If any licensed slaughterman shall discover any disease in any stock slaughtered by him and shall fail forthwith to report the same The Metropolitan Abattoirs Act.-1908. same to an inspector, he may be instantly dismissed by the secretary, and shall, in addition thereto, be liable to a penalty of Ten Pounds. PART IV. 60. For the purpose of preventing the consumption of meat that Inspection of liveis diseased (1) It shall not be lawful for any person to slaughter any stock at the abattoirs without the consent and except in the presence of an inspector: (2) If the carcass of any stock slaughtered at the abattoirs is, after post-mortem examination, found to be diseased, notice thereof in writing shall be given to the owner, his servant, or agent, as soon as practicable; and if such owner, servant, or agent shall, within four hours from the receipt of such notice by writing under his hand given to the Chief Inspector or Superintendent of the abattoirs, dispute the fact that such carcass is diseased the Chief Inspector or Superintendent shall forthwith appoint an independent veterinary surgeon to inspect such carcass, whose decision, certified in writing, shall be final. If the decision of the veterinary surgeon is that the carcass is diseased, the fee payable to him for inspection shall be paid by such owner upon demand, and if not so paid shall be recoverable from him in any Court of competent jurisdiction; but if otherwise, then such fee shall be paid by the Board. Should no dispute arise within such four hours the carcass shall be disposed of pursuant to section 61. The provisions of this subsection shall apply to great cattle only: (3) Forthwith, upon the slaughter of any stock at the abattoirs, the carcass shall be inspected by an inspector, and no meat shall be moved therefrom unless and until he declares it to be free from disease, or unless as hereinafter provided. Penalty, Fifty Pounds for each offence. 61. Whenever, on the slaughter of any stock, it is found that such stock is diseased, it shall be the duty of an inspector, subject to subsection (2) of the next preceding section hereof, to forthwith cause the carcass, or such part thereof as such inspector may deem advisable, to be burnt or so dealt with that the same cannot be used for consumption by human beings or by carnivorous or omnivorous animals; and the Board shall make such allowance to the owner of such stock as it considers just in all cases where such carcass is treated by the Board as a by-product. stock and carcasses. Mode of dealing with slaughter. diseased stock after Prohibition against 62. No person shall within the metropolitan abattoirs area— (a) Keep or use any house or place, except as provided by slaughtering, &c. section 55 hereof, for the purpose of slaughtering or killing any stock or for boiling down any part of the carcass of any stock for food for carnivorous or omnivorous animals; or (b) Feed PART IV. Duty of owners, &c. of stock dying. Carcasses slaughtered to be branded. Unbranded carcasses not to be sold or exposed for sale. Unlawful branding or defacing brands. Vict. Act, sec. 33. Buildings may be entered where stock The Metropolitan Abattoirs Act.-1908. (b) Feed any carnivorous or omnivorous animal with any part of the carcass of any stock which shall not have been slaughtered at the abattoirs, whether the same shall have been boiled down or not; or (c) Sell or supply for food for carnivorous or omnivorous animals any part of the carcass of any stock not slaughtered at the abattoirs, whether boiled down or not: Provided that this section shall not apply to stock killed at the 63. The owner or person in charge of any stock which shall die within the metropolitan abattoirs area, or be killed at any place within such area other than at the abattoirs, shall, within twentyfour hours from the death or killing of such stock— (a) Apply to an inspector for leave to bury the carcass of such stock, and if leave be granted bury the same as directed by and under the supervision of an inspector; or (b) Convey the carcass of such stock to the abattoirs to be disposed of as an inspector shall direct: Provided that this section shall not apply to poultry or to stock killed at the Zoological Gardens for consumption by animals thereat. 64. (1) The Board shall from time to time cause all carcasses (except carcasses of diseased stock) slaughtered at the abattoirs, and the part of any carcass removed therefrom, or from the other premises mentioned in section 54, to be branded as may appear expedient. (2) Any person who shall sell or expose for sale a carcass or portion of a carcass which has not been branded as required by this Act, shall be liable to a penalty of Fifty Pounds. 65. Any person who, without being able to give a satisfactory account thereof, affixes or implants, or attempts to affix or implant, or causes or allows to be affixed or implanted any brand purporting to be a brand under this Act upon any carcass or meat, and any person who, without being able to give a satisfactory account thereof, removes or defaces or attempts to remove or deface, or causes or allows to be removed or defaced any brand placed on a carcass pursuant to this Act, shall be liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding One Hundred Pounds, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding twelve months. 66. (1) Any officer of the Board, or any inspector, or any member or carcass is supposed of the police force, or any special constable or district constable may at any time enter into and upon any place, building, or premises in the metropolitan abattoirs area where any stock or carcass may to be. be, |