Meat Industry (Amendment) Act 1960 (NSW)

MEAT INDUSTRY (AMENDMENT) ACT.

Act No. 5 ,1960.

An Act to make further provision with respect to the inspection of animals slaughtered in New South Wales; for this and other purposes to amend the Meat Industry Act, 1915, as amended by subsequent Acts; to validate certain matters; and for purposes connected therewith. [Assented to, 24th March, 1960.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative	Council and Legislative Assembly of New South Wales in
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: —
1. (1) This Act may be cited as the "Meat Industry (Amendment) Act, 1960".
(2) The Meat Industry Act, 1915, as amended by subsequent Acts and by this Act, may be cited as the Meat Industry Act, 1915-1960.

2. (1) The Meat Industry Act, 1915-1952, is amended— (a) (i) by inserting in section eleven after the word "hereto" the words "which immediately before the commencement of the Meat Industry (Amendment) Act, 1950, were vested in or belonged to the corporation sole constituted by section eight of this Act as enacted immediately before such commencement"; (ii)

(ii)   by omitting from the same section the word "land" and by inserting in lieu thereof the word "lands";

(b) (i) by omitting from subsection one of section 18D the words "in relation to each department of the Board";

(ii)   by omitting from the same subsection the words "balance-sheets and statements of accounts" and by inserting in lieu thereof the words "a balance- sheet and statement of accounts";

(iii)   by omitting from the same subsection the words "in the several departments";

(iv)   by omitting from subsection two of the same section the words "Each such" and by inserting in lieu thereof the word "Such";

(c) (i) by omitting from paragraph (a) of subsection one of section 21A the words "or deemed" and by inserting in lieu thereof the words "by the Board under this section in respect of all classes of cattle or in respect of the class of cattle to which such animal belongs or which are deemed";

(ii)   by omitting paragraph (b) of the same subsec­

tion and by inserting in lieu thereof the follow­

ing paragraph: —

(b) one or both of the following provisions has or have been complied with, that is to say : —

(i)   such animal has been inspected at the time of slaughter and passed as fit for human consumption by an inspector or person approved by the Minister;

(ii)

(ii) the carcase of such animal has been stamped as fit for export in pursuance of the Commerce (Meat Export) Regulations of the Commonwealth of Australia.

(iii)   by inserting in the same subsection after the word "inspection." the following new proviso : —

Provided that where the Minister has in respect of any premises registered as a slaughter­ house under the Cattle Slaughtering and Dis­ eased Animals and Meat Act, 1902, as amended by subsequent Acts, and situated within a city, municipality or shire, approved that such fees shall not be payable for any such inspection made at such premises by an inspector, being a servant of the council of such city, municipality or shire, or by a person, being a servant as afore­ said, approved by the Minister under paragraph (b) of this subsection, such fees shall not be payable accordingly.

(iv)   by inserting next after paragraph (b) of sub­ section two of the same section the following new paragraph : —

(b l ) A license or renewal of a license may be in respect of all classes of cattle or in respect of the class of cattle specified in the license.

(d) by inserting next after section 21B the following new section: —

21c. (1) This section applies to carcases, and to

meat derived from carcases, which have been—

(a) stamped as fit for export in pursuance of the Commerce (Meat Export) Regulations of the Commonwealth of Australia; and

(b)

(b) derived from animals not inspected at the time of slaughter and passed as fit for human consumption by an inspector or person approved by the Minister,

but does not apply to carcases or meat which any person sells or attempts to sell, or exposes for sale, or has in possession for sale, or allows or causes to be sold or exposed for sale, for export or for the purpose of being canned for export.

(2) No person shall, within the metropolitan abattoir area, sell or attempt to sell, or expose for sale, or have in his possession for sale, or allow or cause to be sold or exposed for sale, for human consumption any carcase, or meat, to which this section applies except with the consent of the Minister and unless such carcase or meat has after the time of slaughter been inspected and passed as fit for human consumption by an inspector or by a person approved by the Minister.

Such fees as may be prescribed shall be paid

for such inspection.

Any such inspection shall, in the case of a carcase or meat derived from an animal slaughtered outside the metropolitan abattoir area and within New South Wales and brought into that area, be in addition to any inspection of that carcase or meat made under subsection one of section twenty-two of this Act.

Penalty: Fifty pounds.

(e) by omitting from subsection one of section twenty- two the words "and shall affix thereto" and by inserting in lieu thereof the words "except animals slaughtered within that area the carcases of which are stamped as fit for export in pursuance of the Commerce (Meat Export) Regulations of the Commonwealth of Australia, and may, if requested to do so by the person by whom or on whose behalf

any

any animals are slaughtered within that area, cause to be inspected the carcases of animals slaughtered by or on behalf of that person which are stamped as aforesaid, and shall affix to any carcase so inspected".

(2) The amendment made by paragraph (a) of sub­ section one of this section shall be deemed to have commenced upon the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one.

The waiver by the Colonial Treasurer of the sum of one hundred and fifty-seven thousand seven hundred and eighty- nine pounds being one-half of the interest and other charges which accrued on the capital indebtedness of the Metropolitan Meat Industry Board to the State between the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, and the thirtieth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and fifty- three, is hereby validated and the liability of the Board for the payment of the aforesaid sum is hereby extinguished.

3.

All things done or omitted to be done at any time before the commencement of this Act that would have been valid had the amendments made by section two of this Act been in force at that time are hereby validated.

4.

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