Meat (Treatment) Regulations, 1987

Food and Drugs MEAT (TREATMENT) REGULATIONS, 1987 © Government of Gibraltar (www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) 1964-07 Subsidiary 1987/017 Regulations made under sections 6, 8 and 58. MEAT (TREATMENT) REGULATIONS, 1987 (LN. 1987/017) 1.8.1987 Amending enactments Relevant current provisions Commencement date ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS. Regulation 1. Title and Commencement. 2. Interpretation. 3. Sale etc. of raw meat containing any added specified substance. 4. Condemnation of meat. 5. Penalties. 6. Application of various sections of the Act. SCHEDULE. Food and Drugs MEAT (TREATMENT) REGULATIONS, 1987 © Government of Gibraltar (www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) 1964-07 Subsidiary 1987/017 Food and Drugs MEAT (TREATMENT) REGULATIONS, 1987 © Government of Gibraltar (www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) 1964-07 Subsidiary 1987/017 Title and Commencement. 1.(1) These regulations may be cited as the Meat (Treatment) regulations, 1987. (2) These regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of August, 1987. Interpretation. 2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires– “animal” does not include bird or fish; “human consumption” includes use in the preparation of food for human consumption; “meat” means the flesh or other part of any animal which is intended for sale for human consumption; “the Act” means the Food and Drugs Act; “processed”, in relation to meat, includes curing by smoking and any treatment or process resulting in a substantial change in the natural state of the meat but does not include boning, paring, grinding, cutting, cleaning or trimming; and “unprocessed” shall be construed accordingly; “sell” includes offer or expose for sale or have in possession for sale; “specified substance” means any substance specified in the Schedule to these regulations. Sale etc. of raw meat containing any added specified substance. 3.(1) No raw and unprocessed meat shall contain any added specified substance. (2) No person shall sell, consign or deliver any raw and unprocessed meat which contains any added specified substance. Condemnation of meat. 4. Where any meat is certified by a public analyst as being meat which it is an offence against regulation 3 hereof to sell, consign or deliver, that meat may be treated for the purpose of section l0 of the Act (under which food Food and Drugs MEAT (TREATMENT) REGULATIONS, 1987 © Government of Gibraltar (www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) 1964-07 Subsidiary 1987/017 may be seized and destroyed on the order of a justice of the peace) as being unfit for human consumption. Penalties. 5. If any person contravenes the provisions of regulation 3 of these regulations he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding £1,000. Application of various sections of the Act. 6. Sections 46(2) and (3) (which relate to prosecutions), 47(1) and (2) (which relate to evidence of analysis), 49 (which relates to the power of a court to require analysis by the Government Chemist in the United Kingdom), 50 (which relates to a contravention due to some person other than the person charged), 51(2) (which relates to the conditions under which a warranty may be pleaded as a defence) and 52 (which relates to offences in relation to warranties and certificates of analysis) of the Act shall apply for the purposes of these regulations as if references therein to proceedings, or a prosecution, under or taken or brought under the Act included reference to proceedings, or a prosecution, as the case may be, taken or brought for an offence under these regulations and as if the reference in the said Section 49 to subsection (3) of Section 46 included a reference to that subsection as applied by these regulations. Food and Drugs MEAT (TREATMENT) REGULATIONS, 1987 © Government of Gibraltar (www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) 1964-07 Subsidiary 1987/017 SCHEDULE. SPECIFIED SUBSTANCES. (Regulation 3). Ascorbic acid Erythorbic acid Nicotinic acid Nicotinamide Any salt or other derivative of any of the above mentioned substances.