Georgetown (Abattoir) By-laws

LAWS OF GUYANA Municipal and District Councils Cap. 28:01 371 [Subsidiary] Georgetown (Abattoir) By-laws L.R.O. 1/2012 GEORGETOWN (ABBATTOIR) BY-LAWS ARRANGEMENT OF BY-LAWS BY-LAW 1. Citation. 2. Interpretation. 3. Control of abattoir. 4. Clerk in charge. 5. Register of animals. 6. Lists of animals slaughtered to be published. 7. Hours of opening. 8. Hours of slaughtering. 9. No animal to be slaughtered without the approval of an inspector. 10. Animals to be kept 8 hours before slaughter. 11. Only animals for slaughter to be brought into abattoir. 12. Removal of animals from abattoir. 13. Method of slaughter. 14. Inspection of animals. 15. Inspection and marking of meat. 16. Unsound meat. 17. Disposal of unsound meat. 18. Fresh meat not to be removed within 8 hours of slaughter. 19. Containers. 20. Inspection of container. 21. Removal of blood for human consumption. 22. Removal of hides. 23. Fees. 24. Fees payable for slaughter outside prescribed hours. 25. Proof of payment of fees before slaughter. 26. Feeding, etc., of animals. 27. Animals kept at owner's risk while at abattoir. 28. Recovery of cost of feeding animals. 29. Entry into abattoir prohibited. 30. Entry into slaughter hall prohibited. LAWS OF GUYANA 372 Cap. 28:01 Municipal and District Councils [Subsidiary] Georgetown (Abattoir) By-laws L.R.O. 1/2012 By-laws 1/1952. 2/1989 3/1999 Citation. Interpretation. BY-LAW 31. Register of slaughterers. 32. Licence to slaughter. 33. Method of application for licence. 34. Cleanliness, etc. 35. Termination of licence. 36. Applicant for licence must be 18 years. 37. Powers of inspection, etc., as regards persons suspected of suffering from infectious, etc., diseases. 38. Disorderly behaviour, etc. 39. Intoxicating liquor. 40. Fires. 41. Damages. 42. Tampering with appliances. 43. Obstruction. 44. Power of Council to alter fees. 45. Penalty. FIRST SCHEDULE—Fees for lairage and slaughter. SECOND SCHEDULE—Fees for inspection of imported fresh meat. THIRD SCHEDULE—Register of licensed slaughterers. GEORGETOWN (ABATTOIR) BY-LAWS made by the Town Council under section 206, and approved by the Governor in Council on the 23rd January, 1952, deemed to have been made under section 321 of this Act. 1. These By-laws may be cited as the Georgetown (Abattoir) By-laws. 2. In these By-laws— . "abattoir" means the slaughter-house established by the Council in North Cummingsburg and includes the premises and all buildings, erections, structures, LAWS OF GUYANA Municipal and District Councils Cap. 28:01 373 [Subsidiary] Georgetown (Abattoir) By-laws L.R.O. 1/2012 Control of abattoir. Clerk in charge. Register of animals. appliances and appurtenances provided for the purpose thereof; "animal" means any bull, ox, cow, steer, heifer, calf, sheep, lamb, goat, kid, hog, pig, swine, game or turtle; "fresh meat" means the flesh of any animal whether or not subjected to any refrigerating process but which has not been salted, preserved or treated by any chemical or other process, and includes the carcass, organs and viscera thereof; "inspector" includes the Medical Officer, the Chief Sanitary Inspector, the Meat and Food Inspector and any other per- son authorised by the Medical Officer with the approval of the Council to perform duties of meat and food inspection; "Medical Officer" means the Medical Officer of Health; "slaughter hall" means that part of the abattoir where animals are slaughtered and dressed, and includes the stunning pens; "the clerk in charge" means the officer of the Council for the time being in charge of the abattoir. 3. The abattoir shall be under the control and supervision of the Medical Officer subject to the direction of the Council. 4. The clerk in charge shall be responsible to the Medical Officer for the care and cleanliness of the abattoir and shall without undue delay report to him any mechanical, structural or other defect and shall secure due observance of these by-laws. 5. The Medical Officer shall keep a register in which LAWS OF GUYANA 374 Cap. 28:01 Municipal and District Councils [Subsidiary] Georgetown (Abattoir) By-laws L.R.O. 1/2012 List of animals slaughtered to be published. Hours of opening. Hours of slaughtering. No animal to be slaughtered without approval of an inspector. Animals to be kept 8 hours before slaughter. Only animals shall be recorded in respect of every animal admitted to the abattoir correct particulars as to its kind, sex, colour, marks, brands and other sufficient description, its place of origin, date and hour of arrival at the abattoir as well as the name and address of the person bringing it and of its owner at the time of admission. 6. The Medical Officer shall before the 10th day of each month cause to be advertised in the Gazette the number and description of all animals slaughtered in the City during the preceding month. 7. The abattoir shall be opened daily at 5 a.m. and closed at 6 p.m. and no person shall enter the abattoir after 6 p.m. except with the permission of an inspector or for the purpose of bringing in an animal. 8. Except with the express permission of an inspector no animal shall be slaughtered on Saturdays except between the hours of 9 a.m. and noon and on other days except between the hours of 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. 9. Except with the express permission of an inspector, no person shall slaughter any animal in the abattoir unless such animal has been examined and approved of by an inspector on the day on which it is intended to be slaughtered. 10. Except with the express permission of an inspector no person shall slaughter any animal unless it has been in the abattoir for not less than 8 hours before the time fixed for slaughter: Provided that where any animal is injured as a result of any accident the inspector may order it to be slaughtered forthwith. 11. No person shall bring into the abattoir any animal LAWS OF GUYANA Municipal and District Councils Cap. 28:01 375 [Subsidiary] Georgetown (Abattoir) By-laws L.R.O. 1/2012 or slaughter to be brought into abattoir. Removal of animals from abattoir. Method of slaughter. Inspection of animals. Inspection and marking of meat. Unsound meat. not intended for slaughter or permit any such animal to follow him into the abattoir. Any such animal found in the abattoir may be destroyed or otherwise dealt with as the Medical Examiner shall direct. 12. Except by order of or with the express permission of an inspector no person shall remove from the abattoir any animal that has been admitted to the abattoir for the purpose of slaughter. 13. Except with the express permission of an inspector no person shall slaughter any animal in the abattoir such animal has been effectually stunned with a mechanically-operated instrument provided by the Council: Provided that this by-law shall not apply to the slaughter of any animal without the infliction of unnecessary suffering by the Mohammedan method and by a Mohammedan. 14. Every inspector shall have full power and authority to inspect any animal in the abattoir and to order to be removed therefrom any animal which upon examination appears to be diseased or otherwise unfit for slaughter. 15. (1) No person shall remove from the abattoir any fresh meat until an inspector has examined and passed it as fit for human consumption and has marked it in a manner approved by the Council. (2) Public notification of any mark approved by the Council shall be given by exhibiting a diagram or description of it at the abattoir. (3) No person other than an inspector shall use the mark approved of by the Council. 16. (1) Every inspector shall have full power and LAWS OF GUYANA 376 Cap. 28:01 Municipal and District Councils [Subsidiary] Georgetown (Abattoir) By-laws L.R.O. 1/2012 Disposal of unsound meat. Fresh meat not to be removed within 8 hours of slaughter. Containers. Inspection of container. authority to examine any fresh meat and to condemn and order to be destroyed or otherwise disposed of, in such manner and at such place as he may specify, any fresh meat which upon examination he finds to be diseased or otherwise unfit for human consumption. (2) Unless the inspector otherwise thinks fit so to do no fresh meat shall be examined after 12.30 p.m. on Saturdays and 4.30 p.m. on any other week day. 17. All fresh meat condemned in the abattoir by an inspector as unfit for human consumption shall by order of the inspector be removed daily in the Council's cart to be destroyed or disposed of at such place and in such manner as the inspector may specify. 18. Except with the permission of an inspector no person shall remove from the abattoir any fresh meat before the expiration of 8 hours after the slaughter of the animal. 19. (1) No person shall remove or cause or suffer to be removed from the abattoir any fresh meat except in a metal or metal-lined container with a hinged cover with the owner's name legibly marked thereon, provided by the owner of such fresh meat and approved of by an inspector. (2) Every such container shall, except when in use, be kept at such part of the abattoir as the inspector may direct and shall be kept in a clean and sanitary condition to the satisfaction of the inspector. 20. (1) Any inspector may at any time inspect and examine any container in order to ascertain whether it is in a clean and sanitary condition and is provided with such appliances as he may deem requisite to protect the contents thereof from contamination. (2) When any container is at any time not approved LAWS OF GUYANA Municipal and District Councils Cap. 28:01 377 [Subsidiary] Georgetown (Abattoir) By-laws L.R.O. 1/2012 Removal of blood for human consumption. Removal of hides. Fees. First Schedule Fees payable for slaughter outside prescribed hours. [By-laws 3/1999] of by the inspector he shall immediately notify the owner thereof and thereafter no person shall use it or cause it to be used for the removal of fresh meat from the abattoir until it has been approved of by the inspector. 21. No person shall remove from the abattoir or use for human consumption the blood of any animal slaughtered there, unless and until such blood has been collected in a clean metal vessel and has been examined by an inspector along with the carcass of the said animal and certified by him as being free from disease and otherwise fit for human consumption. 22. (1) The owner of every animal slaughtered in the abattoir shall cause the hide or skin of every such animal to be removed before 9 a.m. on the following day. (2) No such hide or skin shall be removed or carried in the same container as any fresh meat. 23. (1) The fees payable for the lairage and slaughter of each animal admitted into the abattoir, for use of the scale for weighing meat and for permission to work in the tripery shall be as set out in, the First Schedule hereto and shall be paid into the Town Clerk's office or, if that is closed, to the clerk in charge. (2) The fees payable for the inspection of fresh meat brought into the City from outside of the limits of Guyana shall be as set out in the Second Schedule hereto and shall be paid into the Town Clerk's office. 24. Every person granted permission to slaughter an animal outside the hours prescribed by by-law 8 of these by-laws shall, before slaughtering such animal, pay to the inspector for the inspection thereof the following extra charges— For every bovine animal … … … two hundred dollars. LAWS OF GUYANA 378 Cap. 28:01 Municipal and District Councils [Subsidiary] Georgetown (Abattoir) By-laws L.R.O. 1/2012 Proof of payment of fees before slaughter. Feeding, etc. of animals. Animals kept at owners risk while at abattoir. Recovery of cost of feeding animals. For every other animal … … … one hundred dollars. 25. No animal shall be slaughtered unless and until there has been exhibited to the clerk in charge the Council's acknowledgment of the receipt of all fees payable in respect of such animal for lairage, and slaughter or until all such fees have been paid to the clerk in charge. 26. (1) Every animal brought into the abattoir shall, while in the abattoir, be properly and sufficiently fed and watered by the owner to the satisfaction of the inspector. (2) If the owner of such animal fails to comply with this bylaw the Council may feed and water such animal and recover the cost of so doing from the owner. 27. All animals kept in any lair, pen or other place in the abattoir shall be kept at the risk of the owner of such animals and the owner of any animal dying (other than by slaughter) in the abattoir shall, forthwith cause its carcass to be removed to the refuse destructor and be destroyed at his expense. If he fails to do so the Council may remove and destroy it and recover the cost of so doing from the owner. 28. (1) If any sum of money due to the Council for the use of the abattoir or for feeding any animal insufficiently fed by its owner feeding remains unpaid for a period of twelve hours after a written demand by, the Town Clerk for payment of the same, the Council may in their discretion seize and sell at public auction the animal in respect of which such sum is due: Provided that notice of such sale, and of the time and place thereof, shall be published in a daily newspaper circulating in the City two clear days before the day fixed for the sale. (2) Upon such sale the proceeds thereof shall be LAWS OF GUYANA Municipal and District Councils Cap. 28:01 379 [Subsidiary] Georgetown (Abattoir) By-laws L.R.O. 1/2012 Entry into abattoir prohibited. Entry into slaughter hall prohibited. Register of slaughterers. Third Schedule. Licence to slaughter. Method of application for licence. applied in payment of such sums as may be due to the Council and of the costs of and incidental to such sale, and the balance, if any, shall be paid to the person who shall prove to the satisfaction of the Council that he is entitled to it. 29. Except with the express permission of an inspector or the clerk in charge, no person shall enter or be permitted to enter into the abattoir except councillors, employees at the abattoir, the owners of animals in the abattoir, their bona fide servants or agents and licensed slaughterers. 30. Except with the express permission of the clerk in charge no person shall enter or be permitted to enter inside the slaughter hall during the hours fixed for slaughtering except councillors, employees at the abattoir and licensed slaughterers: Provided that the owner of an animal may be permitted to be inside the slaughter hall during the time that such animal is being slaughtered. 31. The clerk in charge shall keep a register of licensed slaughterers in the form contained in the Third Schedule hereto in which he shall enter the name of every slaughterer employed at the abattoir. 32. No person shall slaughter any animal at the abattoir without first having obtained from the Council a slaughterer's licence which he shall exhibit to the clerk in charge before being enrolled in the register of slaughterers. 33. (1) Every applicant for a slaughterer's licence shall produce to the Town Clerk a certificate of good health signed by the Medical Officer and on payment to the Town Clerk of a fee of fifty cents shall receive from him a licence. (2) No person shall slaughter any animal or otherwise act as a slaughterer unless he is in possession of a valid licence. LAWS OF GUYANA 380 Cap. 28:01 Municipal and District Councils [Subsidiary] Georgetown (Abattoir) By-laws L.R.O. 1/2012 Cleanliness, etc. Termination of licence. Applicant for licence must be 18 years. Powers of inspection, etc. as regards persons suspected of suffering from infectious, etc., diseases. Disorderly behaviour, etc. 34. (1) Every slaughterer shall be tidily and cleanly clad in a blue overall or such other uniform as may be approved of by the Medical Officer. (2) Any inspector may prohibit any slaughterer who fails to comply with paragraph (1) of this by-law from slaughtering any animal or handling any fresh meat. 35. Every slaughterer's licence shall terminate on the last day of the calendar year in which it was issued and may at any time for misconduct or other sufficient cause, be revoked by the Town Clerk on the recommendation of the Medical Officer. 36. No slaughterer's licence shall be issued to a person under the age of 18 years. 37. (1) The inspector or the clerk in charge shall order any person suspected to be suffering from an infectious or contagious disease to withdraw from the abattoir and the name, address and suspected disease of such person shall be reported forthwith to the Medical Officer. (2) No such person shall be re-admitted to the abattoir unless; he produces to the inspector or the clerk in charge a certificate of good health signed by the Medical Officer. 38. (1) No person shall fight, or behave in an indecent, disorderly or threatening manner in the abattoir. (2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of this by-law may in addition to any penalty incurred by him, be forcibly removed from the abattoir by the clerk in charge or by any town constable, police constable or rural constable. LAWS OF GUYANA Municipal and District Councils Cap. 28:01 381 [Subsidiary] Georgetown (Abattoir) By-laws L.R.O. 1/2012 Intoxicating liquor. Fires. Damages. Tampering with appliances. Obstruction. Power of Council to alter fees. Penalty. [By-laws 3/1999] (3) No person removed from the abattoir for a breach of the preceding by-law shall be entitled to re-enter the abattoir except by express permission of an inspector. 39. No person shall bring into the abattoir any intoxicating liquor or smoke or spit in the abattoir. 40. No person shall light any fire or cook any food in the abattoir, except in such part of the abattoir as may be set apart for the purpose by the Council. 41. (1) No person shall chop any article on any table in the, abattoir or shall in any way damage any part of the abattoir or any table or other furniture, appliance or thing therein belonging to the Council. (2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of this by law shall, in addition to any penalty incurred by him, pay to the Town Clerk the cost of replacing or repairing any property damaged by him. 42. No person shall, by any contrivance or device or in any manner whatever, tamper with any scale or other appliance in the abattoir. 43. No person shall molest, hinder or obstruct any inspector, or the clerk in charge or any other employee of the Council in the performance of his duties at the abattoir. 44. The Council may by resolution published in the Gazette and a newspaper circulating in Guyana alter the fees set out in the First and Second Schedules hereto and the hours prescribed by by- law 8 of these by-laws for slaughter. 45. Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions of these by-laws or who refuses, neglects or fails to comply with any order or direction given by an inspector or the clerk in charge for carrying any by-law into effect shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine of LAWS OF GUYANA 382 Cap. 28:01 Municipal and District Councils [Subsidiary] Georgetown (Abattoir) By-laws L.R.O. 1/2012 By-law 23(1) two thousand five hundred dollars. FIRST SCHEDULE FEES FOR LAIRAGE AND SLAUGHTER LAIRAGE For the 1st day or part thereof For every other day or part thereof SLAUGHTE R Bull … … … … … 32c. 8c. 50c. Ox … … … … … 32c. 8c. 50c. Cow … … … … … 32c. 8c. 50c. Steer … … … … … 32c. 8c. 50c. Heifer … … … … … 32c. 8c. 50c. Animals weighing from 120 lbs. to 150 lbs. 32c. 8c. 12c. Calf weighing under 120 lbs. … … … 10c. 4c. 6c. Sheep or Lamb … … 10c. 4c. 6c. Goat or Kid … … … 10c. 4c. 6c. Swine … … … … 10c. 4c. 6c. Turtle … … … … 4c. Game ... … … … 4c. 2. Use of the scale for weighing meat— (a) not exceeding 100 lbs … … … … 1 cent (b) every additional 100 lbs. or part thereof ... 1 cent 3. Permission to work in the tripery ... … … ... 4 cents per day LAWS OF GUYANA Municipal and District Councils Cap. 28:01 383 [Subsidiary] Georgetown (Abattoir) By-laws L.R.O. 1/2012 By-law 23(2). By-law 31 . SECOND SCHEDULE FEES FOR INSPECTION OF IMPORTED FRESH MEAT carcass of carcass of any bovine any other animal animal For each carcass not exceeding 10 … … … … … … … … $1.00 50c. For each additional carcass not exceeding 20 … … … … … 50c. 25c. For each additional carcass exceeding 50 … … … … … … 12c. 6c. THIRD SCHEDULE REGISTER OF LICENSED SLAUGHTERERS No. in register Name and address No. of licence Date of licence Remarks