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Approved instruments for slaughter of animals.
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16.—(1) The Minister for Agriculture may, whenever he thinks proper, by order declare any particular type of instrument for slaughtering animals or for rendering animals unconscious to be an approved instrument for the purposes of this Part of this Act in relation to all kinds of animals or in relation only to specified kinds of animals.
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(2) For the purpose of determining whether any particular type of instrument is or is not fit to be declared under this section to be an approved instrument, the Minister for Agriculture may cause such inquiries, investigations, and experiments as he shall think proper to be made in relation to such type of instrument.
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(3) Whenever the Minister for Agriculture makes an order under this section declaring a particular type of instrument to be an approved instrument for the purposes of this Part of this Act, he shall by the same order prescribe the manner of using instruments of that type which shall be the approved manner for the purposes of this Part of this Act of using such instruments.
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(4) The Minister for Agriculture may at any time by order amend or revoke any order previously made by him under this section, including an order made under this sub-section.
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(5) In this Part of this Act the expression “approved instrument” means an instrument which is declared by an order made under this section and for the time being in force to be an approved instrument for the purposes of this Part of this Act in relation to all animals or in relation to the particular kind of animal in relation to which the expression is used.
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(6) In this Part of this Act, the expression “approved manner” means the manner of using the particular approved instrument in relation to which such expression is used which is declared by an order made under this section to be the approved manner for the purposes of this Part of this Act of using such instrument.
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