The Metropolitan Abattoirs Act.-1908. be, or be supposed to be, and any such officer, inspector, member, or constable may, for the purposes of identification, make such mark as he deems fit on any carcass or meat in respect of which he is of opinion that any provision of this Act is not being fully complied with. (2) Any person who delays or obstructs any such officer, inspector, member, or constable in the exercise of any power conferred by this section, or who without the authority of an inspector removes or defaces any such mark, shall, for each such offence, be liable to a penalty of not more than Ten Pounds. PART IV. branded carcasses. 67. (1) Any officer of the Board, or any inspector, or member Power to seize unof the police force, or any special or district constable may seize any carcass that does not appear to him to have been branded, or any Victorian Act, 1652, meat that does not appear to him to be derived from a carcass that sec. 43. has been branded, in case the carcass or the meat is either exposed for sale or in the possession of any person, apparently for the purpose of sale for human consumption, and such officer, inspector, member, or constable, if he shall think it desirable so to do, may remove any carcass or meat so seized. make complaint. (2) Any person claiming any carcass or meat so seized may, Persons affected may within forty-eight hours after such seizure, complain thereof to any Justice, and such complaint may be heard and determined before a Special Magistrate or any two Justices in Adelaide, who may either confirm or disallow such seizure, and may order the carcass or the meat seized to be destroyed, and may make such order as regards costs as he or they shall think just. (3) The onus of proof that any carcass or meat seized was not Onus of proof. intended for sale for human consumption, or that it had been branded or formed part of a carcass that had been branded in accordance with the provisions of this Act, shall be upon the complainant. carcass to become the (4) In the event of no such complaint being made within forty- Where no complaint, eight hours after such seizure, or of such seizure being confirmed, property of the Board. the carcass or the meat as to the seizure of which no complaint has been made, or the seizure of which has been confirmed, shall thereupon become the property of the Board: Provided that any carcass or any meat condemned by any inspector shall be disposed of as provided in section 61 hereof, or as the Secretary of the Board may direct. carcass without (5) In the event of any person without the authority of the Board Offence for removing removing or taking away any carcass or meat so seized, such person, authority. in addition to any other punishment to which he may be liable, shall be deemed and taken to be guilty of an offence against this Act. (6) Any person who refuses to give information, or gives false information, in answer to any inquiry made in the course of his duty by any inspector or officer of the Board, member of the police force, or special or district constable shall be liable on conviction to a penalty of Five Pounds. Persons refusing information liable to penalty. PART IV. Members of police force to report breaches of Act. Penalty for refusing name and address. Board may deliver or contract for the delivery of meat. Blood, &c, to be rendered merchantable. Meat slaughtered without the area to be inspected at abattoirs. The Metropolitan Abattoirs Act.-1908. (7) It shall be the duty of every member of the police force and every special constable and every district constable who finds any person committing a breach of any of the provisions of this Act to demand from such person his name and place of abode, and to report the fact of such breach and the name and place of abode of such person as soon as may be to the secretary of the Board. (8) Any person who refuses to state his name and place of abode or states a false name or place of abode, shall be liable on conviction to a penalty of Five Pounds. 68. The Board may deliver or contract for the delivery of meat slaughtered at the abattoirs, for such remuneration and upon such terms as it shall think fit. 69. The Board shall cause all by-products to be treated and rendered merchantable by means of desiccators, digesters, or such other means as the Board shall think fit. 70. It shall be the duty of the Board to cause all carcasses slaugh metropolitan abattoirs tered without the metropolitan abattoirs area, and brought to the abattoirs or other premises mentioned in section 54 for examina tion, to be examined by an inspector, upon payment of such reasonable fees as shall be from time to time fixed by the Board, and if upon such examination such carcasses shall be found to be free from disease the inspector shall give a certificate in writing to that effect, and brand the same, but if found to be diseased the same shall be retained and disposed of in manner mentioned in section 61: Provided that no such examination shall be made, or certificate given, or brand implanted in respect of any such carcass unless there is attached thereto in natural connection when brought for examination the pleura and the peritoneum, lungs, heart, kidneys, tongue, and such other organs as are prescribed, and, in the case of cows, the udder also: Provided also that the carcasses of stock (with the exception of calves) may be cut in halves. PART V. Establishment of markets. Public notice to be given when markets ready. PART V. MARKETS FOR STOCK. 71. The Board is hereby authorised and empowered to erect and establish markets for the sale of stock on land to be acquired, together with all such railway sidings, buildings, pens, yards, races, plant, works, machinery, and appurtenances as the Board may consider necessary, and from time to time to alter, remove, and extend the same, and the Board may, if it think fit, lease the existing markets for stock, and the buildings and appurtenances connected therewith situated on North Terrace and on the park lands within the City of Adelaide, and may purchase and remove all or any part of such buildings and appurtenances. 72. Forthwith after leasing the existing markets and also after the erection of new markets for the sale of stock, the Board shall The Metropolitan Abattoirs Act.-1908. give public notice that such markets respectively will be available for the sale of stock on and after a day to be specified in such notice; and it shall be the duty of the Board to have such markets then and thereafter available accordingly, but the leased markets shall only remain markets for the sale of stock until such new markets are erected. 73. After the date specified in any notice given under the next preceding section, the control of the markets for stock by the Corporation of the City of Adelaide shall cease, and all Proclamations in the Government Gazette respecting the same shall be of no further force or virtue and the markets established, erected, or leased by the Board in pursuance of this Act shall be public markets for the sale of stock, and shall be under the control of the Board, and no other markets for the sale of stock shall be established, erected, or proclaimed within the metropolitan abattoirs area, any provision to the contrary in any Act of Parliament notwithstanding. PART V. regulations to remain tions made. 74. All by-laws and regulations affecting the said slaughter-house Present by-laws and and the markets for stock, hitherto controlled by the Corporation of in force until new the City of Adelaide, and which are in force at the time of the by-laws and regulapassing of this Act, shall have full force and effect as regards such slaughter-house and markets, as well as the abattoirs and markets to be established by the Board under this Act, until by-laws and regulations are made under or in pursuance of this Act. PART VI. POWER TO TAKE LAND, ETC. PART VI. compulsorily. 75. For the purposes of this Act the Board may compulsorily Power to take land take land within the metropolitan abattoirs area (except park lands or public reserves and lands subject to the public right of way), and, with the consent of the Governor, land in any part in the State of South Australia. 76. Part XII. of "The Municipal Corporations Act, 1890," shall, Part XII. of Act mutatis mutandis, apply in all cases where the Board requires land 497 of 1890 to apply. for works and undertakings as if the same were set out in this Act. 77. The Lands Clauses Consolidation Acts, except sections 110, Lands Clauses Con114, 115, 116, 117, and 118 of the Ordinance No. 6 of 1847, are incorporated. incorporated with this Act, and shall take effect with regard to all works and undertakings which the Board is by any part of this Act authorised to construct, and the Board taking lands for such purposes shall be regarded as the promoters of an undertaking and this Act as the special Act within the meaning of such incorporated Acts: Provided that for the purposes of section 13 of Act No. 202 of 1881 there shall be deemed to be no such special Act. PART PART VII. Other suburban Proclamation to be published. Private abattoirs or slaughter houses to be closed in added area. The Metropolitan Abattoirs Act.-1908. PART VII. EXTENSION OF THE METROPOLITAN ABATTOIRS AREA. 78. The Governor may, by Proclamation (subject to the proviso contained in section 10), upon a request in writing being made to him by any Municipal Corporation or District Council whose Municipality or District is contiguous to the metropolitan abattoirs area that it desires to become a constituent Corporation or Council, declare that such Corporation or Council, shall be a constituent Corporation or Council, and that the provisions of this Act shall, from a date to be mentioned in such Proclamation (such date being the commencement of a financial year) apply within the Munici pality or District, or portion of the Municipality or District, to be also therein mentioned, of such Corporation or District Council. Such request shall define the Municipality or District or portion of the Municipality or District under the jurisdiction of such Municipal Corporation or District Council within which it is desired that the provisions of this Act shall apply, but no such request shall be made to the Governor until all terms and conditions are mutually agreed upon between the Board and the constituent Corporations and Councils for the time being affected by this Act, and the Municipal Corporation or District Council desiring to become a constituent Corporation or Council. 79. Such Proclamation shall define the Municipality or District or portion of the Municipality or District within which the provi sions of this Act are to apply, and shall be published in the Govern ment Gazette, and after the date therein fixed for the provisions of this Act to apply the Municipal Corporation or District Council named therein shall become a constituent Corporation or Council (as the case may be) and the Municipality or District or portion of the Municipality or District defined in such Proclamation shall form part of the metropolitan abattoirs area. 80. After the time fixed by Proclamation for this Act to apply to any Municipality or District or portion of any Municipality or District, all private abattoirs or slaughter-houses within the Munici pality or District or portion of the Municipality or District defined in such Proclamation shall be closed by the owner, occupier, or person having the control or management thereof. And after such time as aforesaid no such Municipal Corporation or District Council shall, save as in this section provided, issue any licence or licences for the slaughtering of stock within such Municipality or District, or such portion thereof to which this Act shall be proclaimed to apply: Provided that this section shall not apply to any slaughter-house or abattoirs established, or to be established within the limits of its Municipality or District or such portion thereof as aforesaid, if such slaughter-house or abattoirs is or are used or intended to be used only for slaughtering stock for export, or for meat to be tinned or canned for export, or for curing bacon and hams. PART The Metropolitan Abattoirs Act.-1908. PART VIII. REGULATIONS. PART VIII. 81. The Board may from time to time make regulations for the Regulations. purpose of carrying into effect all or any of the objects or purposes Victorian Act, sec. 44. expressed or implied in this Act, or incidental thereto, or anywise in connection therewith; and without limitation of or derogation from the foregoing general power, the Board may also make regulations for all or any of the following purposes: (1) Prescribing the conditions on which stock may be received into or supplied or removed from the abattoirs: (2) Prescribing the duties of inspectors, superintendents, clerks, mechanics, slaughtermen, and other officers and servants of the Board, and for regulating and enforcing the due performance of such duties: (3) For licensing and registering persons engaged in tending and slaughtering stock, and in dressing carcasses at the abattoirs: (4) Prescribing the time for slaughtering stock, for the feeding, watering, and tending, and the preventing of cruelty to and overcrowding of stock at the abattoirs, and for the milking of milch stock at the abattoirs : (5) For examining stock and carcasses by inspectors and veterinary surgeons, and prescribing the mode of dealing with stock at the abattoirs when suspected of being affected with disease, and of dealing with carcasses and meat found to be so affected: (6) Prescribing the mode of slaughtering animals and of flaying and dressing carcasses: (7) For examining by inspectors the different parts of a carcass after slaughter at the abattoirs, and for preventing the parts of one carcass being mixed with those of another prior to examination : (8) For examining by inspectors of carcasses slaughtered without the metropolitan abattoirs area, and for prescribing what organs must be attached to such carcasses of various animals, and how attached, and as regards the examining of carcasses elsewhere than at the abattoirs, prescribing the place at which and the days and times when such carcasses will be received for that purpose; (9) For the branding or marking of carcasses and of any part thereof: (10) Fixing the rates of slaughtering fees or of dues payable for the use of the abattoirs and of the markets, under Part V. of this Act, and of sustenance fees for stock: (11) Fixing the fees for examining stock, for examining and branding of carcasses, and for giving certificates as to any D-957 examination |