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Suspension of knackery.
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33.—(1) Whenever, in relation to a knackery, an authorised officer is of opinion that there is grave and immediate danger to public health or to animal health, or to public health and animal health, arising from the manner in which such knackery is managed or maintained, the authorised officer may serve on the holder of the knackery licence in relation to that knackery, or on the person who seems to him to be, for the time being, in charge of such knackery, a notice in writing requiring the immediate closure of such knackery.
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(2) A notice served under subsection (1) of this section may specify the steps that ought to be taken, or the things that ought to be done, before the knackery, in respect of which the notice was served, may continue to operate as a knackery.
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(3) A notice served under subsection (1) of this section may also direct the holder of the knackery licence, or any other person on whom such notice is served, to prominently display notice of the closure of the knackery at the entrance to such premises and in such other places, if any, as may be specified in the notice.
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(4) A person upon whom a notice is served under subsection (1) of this section shall forthwith comply with the terms of the notice.
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(5) Any person who fails to comply with the terms of a notice under subsection (1) of this section shall be guilty of an offence.
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(6) An authorised officer may at any time revoke a notice served by him under subsection (1) of this section.
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(7) The service of a notice under subsection (1) of this section shall not be construed as in any way affecting any proceedings, whether instituted before or after such service, in which a contravention of any provision of this Act or of Regulations made thereunder is alleged.
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(8) Any person aggrieved by a notice under subsection (1) of this section may, not later than 21 days after the service of the notice, appeal to the District Court against the notice.
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(9) On the hearing of an appeal under subsection (8) of this section, the District Court may, as it thinks proper, cancel or confirm the notice, and the decision of the District Court on such hearing shall be final save that, by leave of that Court, an appeal shall lie to the High Court on a point of law.
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