RULES AND REGULATIONS

TOUCHING AND CONCERNING

PUBLIC SLAUGHTER HOUSES.

Superintendent’s Office,
Auckland, May 31, 1855.

In exercise of the powers vested in me, in that behalf, by the provisions contained in the sixth section of an Act of the local Legislature of the Province of Auckland, passed in the second Session thereof, intituled “An Act to amend an Ordinance for Regulating the Slaughtering of Cattle in certain places,” I do hereby make and promulgate the following Rules and Regulations for the management of Public Slaughter-houses within the said Province, and for other purposes in the said section specified:

1. No Cattle shall be slaughtered on Sundays in any public Slaughter-house within the said Province.

2. On all other days such houses shall be kept open during the hours hereinafter specified, for the slaughtering of cattle therein, and for skinning and dressing the carcasses of the cattle so slaughtered.

3. From the first day of May to the first day of November in every year, such hours shall be from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m., and from the said first day of November to the first day of the month of May thence next ensuing, such hours shall be from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m.; provided that for the said purposes the said houses may be kept open three hours later on Saturdays, or may be opened two hours earlier on Mondays.

4. No cattle shall be slaughtered at any such house except during the times hereinbefore prescribed; and every such house shall be closed and securely fastened within one hour from and after the latest time to which, under these rules and regulations, the same may be kept open.

5. The keeper or lessee (as the case may be) of every such house shall cause the same to be kept clean, and to be washed out twice every day (Sundays excepted), and shall cause the walls thereof to be white-washed on the inside once in every month, and shall, once in every week, cause all manure, offal, and refuse, to be conveyed away from the said house and its premises and shall cause all stockyards and sheep-pens thereunto belonging or thereon erected, to be kept clean and in repair.

6. No cattle shall be allowed to run at large in any such house, or on the premises thereunto belonging.

7. Cattle taken to any such house to be slaughtered, shall be slaughtered, skinned, and dressed in such house, and not elsewhere.

8. The carcase of every head of cattle slaughtered in any such house shall be skinned and properly dressed therein before the same or any part thereof shall be therefrom taken away.

9. Within 18 hours after the slaughter of any such head of cattle every part of the carcass thereof, and all matter thence proceeding shall be taken away from such house, and its premises or removed from such house to the manure-reservoir belonging thereto.

10. Every person slaughtering cattle at any such house shall pay the regulated fees for the same, and shall not remove therefrom, by injury, or destroy any of the slaughtering tools or implements, or any part of the yards or buildings thereto belonging.

11. Every such keeper or lessee shall, in the event of any diseased cattle being slaughtered at such house, give immediate notice thereof to the Inspector of Slaughter-houses for the district wherein such house is situate.

12. The keeper or lessee of any such house shall admit therein, at all times, at any hour of the day or night, such Inspector of public Slaughter-houses as aforesaid.

13. Every such keeper or lessee shall keep a correct weekly account of all cattle slaughtered at such house, and of the respective persons by or for whom the same shall have been slaughtered, and shall on every Monday transmit a copy thereof, signed by such keeper or lessee, to such district Inspector as aforesaid.

14. All persons slaughtering cattle at such house shall, immediately on being thereto requested by the keeper, lessee, or inspector thereof, give every assistance in examining the hides of the cattle so slaughtered.

15. The word “cattle” as herein used shall be taken to include horned or neat cattle, sheep, goats, and swine.

16. Every such Inspector of Slaughter-houses as aforesaid is hereby authorised to sue all persons who shall, within his district, offend against any of the Rules and Regulations herein contained.

The foregoing Rules and Regulations shall take effect and be in force within the said Province from and after the fifty day of June, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five.

Wm. Brown,
Superintendent.

NOTICE

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