Sale of Meat and Meat Products Regulations

SALE OF MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS [S.L.117.28 1 SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 117.28 SALE OF MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS REGULATIONS 27th November, 1990 LEGAL NOTICE 198 of 1990. Title.1. The title of these Regulations is Sale of Meat and Meat Products Regulations. Interpretation.2. In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires "meat seller" means a person whose main business activity consists in the sale of fresh, chilled or frozen meat by retail from a butcher shop; "grocer" means a person whose main business activity consists in the sale of groceries by retail and includes a person running a self service store, but does not include a meat seller; "prescribed food" means: (a) fresh, chilled or frozen raw and unprocessed meat; and (b) Maltese type sausages; "meat" means the flesh of bovines, porcines, ovines or caprines; "meat processor" means a person owning an approved and licensed installation wherein meat products are processed and packed; Cap. 449."business" has the same meaning assigned to it under the Food Safety Act. Packing of meat and Maltese type sausages. 3. (1) No meat processor may pack prescribed food or offer for sale such food other than in gross quantities, and only to meat sellers or for catering purposes. (2) No meat seller may pack or offer for sale packed prescribed food other than from his butcher shop. (3) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub-regulations (1) and (2) of this regulation, a meat processor or a meat seller may pack or offer for sale vacuum-packed Maltese type sausages in packets weighing not less than two kilogrammes each. Sale of meat products. 4. Each meat seller, grocer or meat processor shall be bound to ensure that meat products which are not classified as prescribed food, are: (a) prepared and prepacked in duly licensed factories; (b) solid in unopened packets; and (c) stored and offered for sale in accordance with sanitary regulations. Penalties.5. Any person guilty of an offence against any of the 2 [S.L.117.28 SALE OF MEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS provisions of these Regulations, shall be liable (a) on a first conviction to a fine (multa) of not less than ten liri but not exceeding fifty liri; (b) on a second conviction after twelve months from the first conviction, to a fine (multa) of not less than fifty liri but not exceeding one hundred liri; (c) on a second conviction within twelve months from the first conviction or on a third or subsequent conviction, to a fine (multa) of not less than one hundred liri but not exceeding two hundred liri and to the suspension of his licence for a period of not less than one month but not exceeding six months.