6. The slaughter-house shall be open for the slaughter of animals during such hours only as the Committee may from time to time prescribe but in special circumstances and on the realization of such, extra fee as the Superintendent may think fit, he may allow the slaughter of an animal at any other time, under his written permission.
7. The Veterinary Public Health Officer shall fix at a conspicuous place in the slaughter house a notice showing: -
(i) The hours of working of the slaughter house.
(ii) The fees payable and
(iii) Any other directions that the Committee may see fit to issue.
8. A copy of these Bye-Laws and a list of the registered slaughter-men shall be huge at a conspicuous place in the slaughter-house.
9. Every person using the slaughter house shall be responsible for the damage willfully or negligence caused to the slaughter-house, either by his own acts or the acts of his servants and any such person who does not pay such damages may be excluded from the slaughter house until he pays the cost of the damage done.
10 (i) No person effected with tuberculosis, or any other infectious or contagious disease shall enter the slaughter house.
(ii) The Veterinary Public Health Officer may require any person using the slaughter-house to submit to a medical inspection.
11. No person shall create any disturbance in the slaughter house.
12. No person other than the Municipal staff on duty inspecting officers, butchers slaughter-men and their assistants or bonafide servants shall enter the slaughter house premises during the process of slaughtering, skinning or cutting up of carcasses.
13. Any person transgressing the provisions of Bye-Laws 10 (i), 11 and 12 may be removed from the slaughter house summarily under the directions of Veterinary Public Health Officer.
14. (i) No person shall rub or cause to be rubbed the inner sides of the skins upon the ground within any portion of the slaughter house.
(ii) Hides and skins shall not be dragged within the slaughter house premises except on the hairy sides.
15. No gut scrapping trips cleaning manufacture or preparation of articles of food for ment animals, house hold washing or work of any nature, other than is involved in the slaughter house of animals and the dressing of carcasses, shall be permitted in the slaughter house.
16. No meat shall be sold on the premises of the slaughter house.
BEFORE THE SLAUGHTER
17. Every animal intended for slaughter shall be brought to the inspection yard and presented for inspection to the Veterinary Public Health Officer.
18. No animal shall be approved for slaughter, if: -
(i) It is less than 15 months old.
(ii) It is in a febrile condition or is excessively old.
(iii) It is pregnant or is with unweaned young.
(iv) It is deceased or in a dying condition provided that an animal which has met with an accident, but is otherwise healthy may be approved.
(v) It shows symptoms of having being treated cruelly by over-trucking, over-driving, or other acts.
19. No person shall bring into any part of the slaughter house.
(i) An animal less than 15 months old.
(ii) An animal in a febrile condition or is excessively old.
(iii) An animal which is pregnant or is with unweaned young.
(iv) A deceased or dying or dead or any carcass or part thereof.
(v) An animal showing symptoms of having being treated cruelly by over-trucking, over-driving, or other acts.
(vi) A dog or
(vii) Any animal not meant for slaughter or for the slaughter of which the slaughter house is not provided.
Any animal brought into the slaughterhouse in contravention of this Bye-Laws hall be summarily removed under the orders of the Veterinary Public Health Officer.
20. The veterinary Public Health Officer shall maintain a register in which he shall record: -
(i) The age, class, sex and a brief description of each animal presented for slaughter.
(ii) Name and address of the owner of the animal.
(iii) Result of ante-mortem inspection.
(iv) Result of post mortem inspection and
(v) Fees recovered.
21. An animal rejected for slaughter shall not be brought again to the slaughterhouse.
22. Animal found to be affected by any infectious or contagious disease or which are reasonably suspected of being so affected shall, if the Veterinary Public Health Officer so directs, be forthwith apprehended and removed to the Veterinary Hospital or such other place as the Committee man provide for the purpose.
23. Animals approved for slaughter shall be branded or marked with a distinctive mark on the ears, hoofs or horns and admitted to the waiting yard, provided that no animal shall be admitted to the waiting yard, if the prescribed fee has not been paid.
24. While in the waiting yard the owner or the person incharge of the animal shall be responsible for its security, proper care, feeding and watering provided that the Committee may arrange for feeding of animals, while in the waiting yard and recover the expanses from the owner.
25.All animals approved for slaughter shall be kept in the waiting yard, until the owners or person incharge thereof receive permission from the Veterinary Public Health Officers to take them to the slaughter yard.
26. Slaughter house fee will be collected from the owners or person incharge for all the animals to be slaughtered after inspection has been completed. The fee will be fixed/revised by the Corporation from time to time.
THE SLAUGHTER
27. No animal shall be admitted to the slaughter yard, unless it is blindfolded.
28. Every person willing to work as a slaughter man in the slaughter house shall get his name registered as such in the Committee’s office.
29. No person shall slaughter an animal in the slaughterhouse unless his name is registered as a slaughter-man.
30. The Veterinary Public Health Officer may inspect the instruments and appliances of every slaughter-man and may prohibit the use of any instrument or appliance by a slaughter-man, if in his opinion such instrument or appliance is not in proper working order.
31. The Veterinary Public Health Officer shall assign a place to each slaughter-man for slaughtering and no animal shall be slaughtered by a slaughter man at any other place than the place assigned to him.
32. Every animal shall be slaughtered immediately over the drain and no blood shall be allowed a flow upon the floor. No animal shall be slaughtered in public view, or in view of another animal.
AFTER THE SLAUGHTER:
33. Slaughtered animals shall be disemboweled as soon as possible after slaughter, to the satisfaction of the Veterinary Public Health Officer.
34. That the contents of the stomach and bowels of the slaughtered animals shall not be washed into the drain or allowed to drop on the floor but shall be emptied into receptacles provided for the purpose by the Committee.
35. No person shall conceal, remove or obliterate any evidence of any disease in a carcass by washing, rubbing, stripping or in any other manner, before presenting it for inspection by the Veterinary Public Health Officer.
36. No person shall strip the serious membranes of a carcass, except with the permission and under the direct supervision of the Veterinary Public Health officer.
37. No air shall be blown by mouth or by any other manner into the tissues of any carcass or part of the carcass.
The Veterinary Public Health Officer may cause to be buried or destroyed any carcass or part of a carcass found to be blown or stuffed.
38. While upon the premises of the slaughter yard the fat of every animal slaughtered shall be kept freely exposed to the air.
39. All carcasses shall after skinning the cleaning be presented to the Superintendent for inspection.
40. (i) The Veterinary Public Health Officer, shall have his own knives, wipe and instruments for examining carcasses and parts and organs thereof.
(ii) Knives and other instruments that have been used for cutting or examining any diseased organ, gland or tissue shall not again be used for any purpose until they have been properly disinfected.
41. (i) If a carcass is found on inspection to be free from disease, the Veterinary Public Health Officer shall pass it without undue mutilation as fit for human consumption.
(ii) If any part of the carcass is found to be disease it shall be removed, and the reminder passed fit for human consumption if it shows no symptoms of disease.
If the entire carcass is contaminated with disease or is otherwise unfit for human consumption, it shall be condemned.
42. All condemned meat shall be destroyed, buried or other- wise disposed off under the orders of the Veterinary Public Health Officer.
43. All carcasses which have been passed by the Veterinary Public Health Officer as fit for human consumption shall be marked “Passed” alongwith an identifying mark for the kind of meat such as: -
(i) “G” for goat flesh.
(ii) “M” for mutton.
44. No person except the Veterinary Public Health Officer or a person specially authorized by him shall affix or place or cause to be affixed or placed the inspection or identifying marks to or on any meat and no such marks shall be affixed or placed to or on any meat at any place other than the premises of the slaughter-house.
45. No person shall remove any carcass from the slaughter house premises until it has been duly passed by the Veterinary Public Health Officer.
46. No person shall remove entrails and offal’s from the slaughter-house until they have been properly washed and cleansed.
47. Any carcass or part thereof not removed from the slaughter- house, or such further time as the Veterinary Public Health Officer shall become the property of the Committee and the Veterinary Public Health Officer shall be general or special order provide for the disposal of such carcass or parts thereof.
TRANSPORT
48. No person shall remove or cause to be removed from the premises of the slaughter house any carcass or meat except in a clean receptacle and covered in such a manner as to be screened from public view and adequately protected against flies and dust.
If any carcass or meat is removed in a vehicle the conveyance shall be such that the meat is well ventilated but at the same time invisible. The carcasses shall be huge on hooks and not dumped on the floor of the vehicle.
49. Every person who conveys or causes to be conveyed and meat in a vehicle: -
(i) Shall cause to be kept clean the inside and covering of the vehicle the receptacle in which the meat is placed and such parts or any slings or other implements or apparatus used for loading or unloading as come into act with meat or its covering.
(ii) If the vehicle is open at the top, back or sides shall cause the meat to be adequately screened and protected by means of a clean cloth or other suitable material and
(iii) Shall not permit any live animal or any other article to be conveyed in the vehicle at the same time as meat
50. Every person engaged in the handling or transport of meat shall take such precautions as are necessary to prevent the meat from coming into contact with the ground of being otherwise subject to contamination.
PANALTY
51. Any person who commits a breach of the provisions of any of these bye-laws shall, on conviction by a Magistrate, be punishable in accordance with Section 396 of the Act.