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10 1930

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (FRESH MEAT) ACT, 1930

Part V.

Miscellaneous and General.

Powers and dUties of Veterinary Inspectors.

47. —A veterinary inspector shall have all the powers conferred on a veterinary examiner by this Act and shall, if required by the Minister so to do, perform all the duties, or such of them as the Minister may direct, imposed on a veterinary examiner by this Act.

Unlawful possession of marks and certificates.

48. —(1) Every instrument for marking fresh meat or offals in accordance with this Act and the regulations for the marking of fresh meat shall be of such form, design, and material as shall be prescribed by these regulations.

(2) It shall not be lawful for any person to make, order, purchase, import, or have in his possession, a prescribed instrument for marking fresh meat or offals or any instrument by means of which a prescribed mark or a colourable imitation thereof could be applied to fresh meat or offals, or to cancel a prescribed instrument for marking fresh meat or offals, or to make, order, purchase, import, or have in his possession a prescribed form of consignment certificate or any colourable imitation thereof.

(3) Nothing in this section shall render it unlawful for an officer of the State acting in the course of his duty as such officer to order, purchase, import, have in his possession, or cancel a prescribed instrument for marking fresh meat or offals or to order, purchase, import, or have in his possession a prescribed form of consignment certificate or for any person in pursuance of an order lawfully given or a contract lawfully made by any such officer to make, import, or have in his possession any such instrument or any such form.

(4) Every person who, in contravention of this section, makes, orders, purchases, imports or has in his possession a prescribed instrument for marking fresh meat or offals or any instrument by means of which a prescribed mark or a colourable imitation thereof could be applied to fresh meat or offals, or cancels a prescribed instrument for marking fresh meat or offals, or makes, orders, purchases, imports or has in his possession a prescribed form of consignment certificate or a colourable imitation thereof shall be guilty of an offence/under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty-five pounds or, at the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.

Powers under other Acts.

49. —(1) Save as otherwise provided by this section, the powers conferred on the Minister by this Act shall be and be exercised without prejudice to the exercise by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health of the powers conferred on him by the Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907, or to the exercise by local slaughter-house authorities of their statutory powers in relation to the inspection of the slaughter-houses as such authorities, or to the exercise by local sanitary authorities of the powers in relation to slaughter-houses or in relation to articles intended for the food of man conferred on them by the Public Health (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1919, as amended by Part II . of the Local Government Act, 1925 (No. 5 of 1925), or conferred on them by any local or personal Act.

(2) Premises registered in any register of slaughtering pre mises so long as they continue to be so registered shall be exempt from the obligation to be registered or to be licensed under any other enactment relating to the registration or the licensing of slaughter-houses and shall also be exempt from all statutory provisions (including orders, regulations, rules, and bye-laws) applicable to slaughter-houses in consequence of such registration or licensing.

(3) Section 50 of the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, shall not apply in respect, of registered slaughtering premises.

Offences.

50. —Every offence under any section of this Act may be prosecuted by or at the suit of the Minister as prosecutor.

General regulations.

51. —(1) The Minister may by order make regulations in regard to any matter or thing referred to in this Act as prescribed or as being or to be prescribed.

(2) Any regulations made by the Minister under this Act may relate to several matters in respect of which the power to make regulations is conferred by different sections of this Act.

(3) Every regulation made by the Minister under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat annulling such regulation, such regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such regulation.

Disposition of fees received by Minister.

52. —All fees received by the Minister under this Act shall be paid into or disposed of for the benefit of the Exchequer in such manner as the Minister for Finance may direct.

Expenses.

53. —All expenses of carrying this Act into effect shall, to such extent as shall be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be paid out of moneys to be provided by the Oireachtas.