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Issue of slaughter licences.
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21.—(1) Whenever an application for a slaughter licence is duly made under and in accordance with this Act to the sanitary authority for an area in which or in part of which this Act has effect, such sanitary authority shall issue a slaughter licence to the applicant unless it appears to such sanitary authority that the applicant—
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(a) has not attained the age of eighteen years, or
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(b) neither resides, nor carries on business, nor is employed in (as the case may require) the functional area of such sanitary authority or the portion of such functional area in which this Act has effect, or
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(c) is not a fit and proper person to hold a slaughter licence.
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(2) No slaughter licence shall be issued to a person who has not attained the age of eighteen years, and every slaughter licence issued in contravention of this sub-section shall be void and of no effect.
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(3) No person shall hold at any one time more than one slaughter licence which is in force, and accordingly a slaughter licence shall not be issued (save by way of renewal under the provision in that behalf contained in this Act) to a person who holds a slaughter licence which is in force, and every slaughter licence issued in contravention of this sub-section shall be void and of no effect.
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