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Inspection of registered premises.
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22.—(1) Any inspector, veterinary inspector or veterinary examiner shall be entitled (subject to the production by him if so required of his authority in writing as such inspector, veterinary inspector or veterinary examiner) at all reasonable times to enter upon any registered premises or any premises in respect of which an application for registration has been made and to inspect such premises and the plant, machinery, appliances and equipment therein and to observe all or any of the processes used in the business carried on therein.
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(2) Any duly authorised officer of a local sanitary authority shall be entitled at all reasonable times to enter upon any registered slaughtering premises situate in the functional area of such authority and to make such inspection therein as may be necessary to satisfy him that the general conditions of cleanliness and suitability of slaughtering premises and the particular conditions of suitability of slaughtering premises applicable to such premises are being complied with.
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(3) It shall be the duty of an inspector, veterinary inspector or veterinary examiner who, in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by this section, has inspected any premises to furnish a report in writing to the Minister of any breaches observed by him in such premises (in the case of registered slaughtering premises) of the general conditions of cleanliness and suitability of slaughtering premises and the particular conditions of suitability of slaughtering premises applicable to such premises or (in the case of registered crating premises) of the general conditions of cleanliness and suitability of crating premises.
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(4) It shall be the duty of a duly authorised officer of a local sanitary authority who, in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by this section, has inspected any registered slaughtering premises to furnish a report in writing to the Minister of any breaches observed by him in such premises of the general conditions of cleanliness and suitability of slaughtering premises and the particular conditions of suitability of slaughtering premises applicable to such premises.
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(5) Every person who obstructs or impedes any inspector, veterinary inspector or veterinary examiner or any duly authorised officer of the local sanitary authority in the exercise of any of the powers conferred on him by this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds.
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(6) Whenever an inspector, veterinary inspector or veterinary examiner or a duly authorised officer of the local sanitary authority reports under this section to the Minister that any registered slaughtering premises do not comply with the general conditions of cleanliness and suitability of slaughtering premises and the particular conditions of suitability of slaughtering premises applicable thereto or an inspector, veterinary inspector, or veterinary examiner reports under this section to the Minister that any registered crating premises do not comply with the general conditions of cleanliness and suitability of crating premises, the Minister may serve a notice in the prescribed form upon the registered proprietor of such premises requiring such registered proprietor to do in the manner and time specified in such notice all or any of the things lawfully specified therein under this section.
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(7) A notice served under the foregoing sub-section may require—
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(a) that the premises or any specified portion thereof be cleansed;
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(b) that the equipment, fittings and appliances or any part thereof be cleansed;
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(c) that the premises or any specified portion thereof be put in a state of good repair;
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(d) that such structural alterations or additions be made in or to the premises as the notice may specify;
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(e) that the equipment, fittings, or the appliances, or any part thereof be put in a state of good repair;
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(f) that such improvements or additions as the notice may specify be made in or to the equipment, fittings and appliances used in the premises;
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(g) that any cause of contamination or deterioration to which the fresh meat or offals prepared or packed in the premises are exposed be removed or rendered innocuous;
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(h) in the case of registered slaughtering premises—
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(i) that adequate facilities be provided for the proper disposal of blood, washings and waste;
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(ii) that there shall be made available on the premises an adequate supply of good and wholesome water;
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(iii) that adequate facilities be provided on or in respect of the premises for the penning and resting of animals before slaughter;
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(iv) that there be employed in the slaughtering premises one or more persons skilled in the slaughtering of animals and preparation of carcases and offals.
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(8) A notice under this section may be served by delivering the same to the person to whom it is addressed or by leaving the notice on the premises to which it relates or by sending it by registered post to the person to whom it is addressed at the premises to which it relates.
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(9) Any person upon whom a notice has been served under this section who fails to comply, in the manner and within the time specified in such notice, with the requirements thereof, and who on the expiration of the time aforesaid continues to carry on in the premises to which such notice relates the business of preparation or packing of fresh meat or offals for export shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds and to a further fine not exceeding five pounds for every day on which such default continues.
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