SLAUGHTER-HOUSE ACT, 1866. IN THE TWENTY-NINTH YEAE OF THE RFIG-N OE HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA. SESSION XIX. 1866, No. 5. Title. Preamble. 1. Short title. 2. Ordinances repealed. 3. Districts and Slaughter-houses to be appointed. 4. Private Slaughter-bouses may be licensed. 5. Cattle not to be slaughtered for hire in Private Slaughter-houses. 6. Notice of application for license to be given. 7. All cattle to be slaughtered at Public or Private Slaughter-houses. 8. No cattle to be slaughtered in City of Auckland. 9. Admission may be demanded to places where cattle suspected to be slaughtered illegally. 10. Blood or offal to be prima facie evidence of illegal slaughtering. ANALYSIS : 11. Superintendent may make rules and regulations. 12. Slaughter-houses may be inspected and searched. 13. Slaughter-houses to be kept clean. 14. Diseased animals not to be brought to Slaughter-houses. 15. Register to be kept. 16. Persons may slaughter for private use. 17. Skins of slaughtered animals to be produced. 18. Defacing of brands. 19. Slaughter-houses may be let. 20. Slaughter-house keeper may recover charges. 21. Provisions of Section 8 may be extended to other towns. 22. Penalties recoverable in a summary way. 23. Saving of existing rights. Schedule. AN ACT to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Title Slaughter-houses. WHEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the Preamble, laws relating to Slaughter-houses
2 BE IT ENACTED by the Superintendent of the Province of Auckland by and with the advice and consent of the Provincial Council thereof as follows : Short Title. 1. The short title of this Act shall be " The Slaughterhouse Act, 1866." Ordinances repealed. 2. Aii Ordinance of the Lieutenant-Governor and Legislative Council of New Zealand Session VIII. No. 5 intituled "An Ordinance for Regulating the Slaughtering of Cattle in certain places" and an Act of the Superintendent and Provincial Council of Auckland Session n. No. 4, intituled " An Act to Amend an Ordinance for Regulating the Slaughtering of Cattle in certain places" are hereby repealed. Districts and siaugh- 3. It shall lie lawful for the Superintendent by ProclamapoTnt e i r St0 be ap " tion in the Provincial Government Gazette from time to time to constitute and define Slaughter-house Districts and to appoint one or more Public Slaughter-houses for each of such Districts and the limits of such Districts and the appointment of such Slaughter-houses from time to time to alter or revoke as occasion may require. Private Slaughterhouses may be licensed. 4. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent from time to time at his discretion to license for one year suitable premises situate not nearer than one mile to any Public Slaughter-house as Private Slaughter-houses and for each such license there shall be payable to the Provincial Treasurer on the issue thereof annually a fee of not less than ten pounds nor more than fifty pounds to be fixed in each case by the Superintendent. Cattle not to be 5. Such license shall entitle the person therein named or in & Private slaughter^ his servants to slaughter cattle for one year from the date houses. thereof for the purposes of his OAVII trade or business only but not the cattle of any other person for hire or reward and any person holding such license permitting cattle belonging to any other person to be slaughtered in his Private Slaughterhouse shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty-five pounds and on conviction of a second offence shall be liable to have his license cancelled. Notice of application for license to be given. therefor 6. No such license shall be granted until the application s]iall liave been notified for one month in the Provincial Government Gazette. All cattle to be 7. All cattle slaughtered within any such District as aforesiaughtered at^pub- s]ian ])e slaughtered at a Public or Private Slaughter-house Slaughter-houses, and not elsewhere under a penalty not exceeding ten pounds for every head of cattle so slaughtered elsewhere. No cattle to be slaughtered in City 8. There shall lie no Slaughter-house within the of Auckland. limits of the City of Auckland and no cattle shall be slaughtered within the said limits unless the same shall
2 have become necessary on account of some accident or otherwise the proof of which necessity shall be upon the person so slaughtering and every person so slaughtering within the said limits or aiding or assisting in so slaughtering or permitting such slaughtering in or upon premises occupied by him contrary to this provision shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds for every head of cattle so slaughtered. 9. If any constable 01* member of the Police force shall Admission may be, %,,, j j n i jj-in demanded to places have reasonable grounds to suspect tiiat any cattle have where cattle susrecently been are being or are in any place for the purpose tered 1ii4ndiy SlaUSh " of being slaughtered in any place whatever other than a Public or Private Slaughter-house it shall be lawful for such constable or Police officer to demand admission forthwith to such place stating the object of such demand and if such admission shall be refused or unreasonably delayed the occupier of such place shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds over and above any penalty to which he may be liable in respect of illegally slaughtering in such place..10 If any blood or offal of any cattle shall be found in Blood or offal to be any place other than a Public or Private Slaughter-house and its oftifegardaujseipresence in such place shall not be satisfactorily accounted ing. for by the occupier of such place such occupier shall be deemed guilty of having slaughtered cattle contrary to the provisions of this Act and shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds. 11. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent from time Superintendent may to time to make alter and revoke such rules and regulations j" ls rules and regu " as to him shall seem fit for the management of any Public Slaughter-house for securing the cleanliness thereof for the government of persons slaughtering cattle and otherwise employed thereat and for the payment of such charges as he shall prescribe for each head of cattle therein slaughtered not exceeding the charges in the schedule hereto annexed and any person offending against any such rule or regulation shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each offence over and above payment of the prescribed charges for slaughtering. * 12. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace 01' Slaughter-houses Police officer or person 1 appointed 11 bv «/ the Superintendent JL at any «/ searched. time to enter into and inspect any Public or Private Slaughter-house and to search for any cattle or portion of any cattle supposed to be stolen and to inspect the register of cattle slaughtered and every person who shall hinder or obstruct or aid or assist in hindering or obstructing any Justice of the Peace Police officer or person so appointed in making such inspection 01* search as aforesaid shall be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding six months. ma y be inspected and 13. It shall be lawful for any Resident Magistrate or be a kept e ckan! ses t0
4 two Justices by writing under their hands respectively to order and direct any Slaughter-house to be cleansed and every keeper of any such Slaughter-house shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for every day on which such Slaughter-house shall continue uncleaned thereafter and it shall be lawful for such Resident Magistrate or Justices to cause such Slaughter-house to be cleansed the cost of which shall be recoverable from the keeper of such Slaughter-house over and above any penalties to which he may be liable. Diseased animals not 14. If anv person shall take or assist in taking into to be brought to,, *i 1 4. x? i Slaughter-houses. any Slaughter-house any animal or part ol any animal that has died of any disease or if any person shall bring to any Slaughter-house to be slaughtered or shall therein slaughter any cattle known to be infected with scab influenza catarrh measles pleuro-pneumonia or any other disease rendering the same unwholesome for human food he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds and the keeper of any Slaughter-house to which such diseased animal or carcase shall be brought shall seize and bury or destroy the carcases of any sucli diseased animals under a penalty of twenty pounds and such keeper shall be entitled to recover from the owner of such carcases the cost of burying or destroying the same. Register to be kept. 15. The keeper of every Slaughter-house shall keep a book in which he shall enter a particular account and description of all cattle slaughtered in such Slaughter-house specifying the colour marks brands sex and apparent age of such cattle and the name and residence of the person bringing the same for slaughter and any Slaughter-house keeper failing to keep correctly such book or who shall make any false entry therein shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds for each offence. Persons may siaugh- 1G. Nothing hereinbefore contained shall extend to any tei or pmate use. pergons 0L1tside of the limits of the City of Auckland slaughtering O o cattle at his own residence or farm for his own family use. Skins of Slaughtered 17. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace to animals to be pro- demand from the owner the production of the skin of anv ulcgu. cattle that may have been slaughtered within one month previous to the date of such demand and any person refusing or neglecting to produce such skins 011 such demand or to give a satisfactory account of how and in what manner they have been disposed of shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding ten pounds for each offence. Defacing of brands. 18. Any person who shall cut out burn or otherwise destroy or deface any brand on any skin or who shall be in possession of or shall purchase any skin from which the brands shall have been cut out burnt or defaced without
being able to give a satisfactory reason therefor shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds. 19. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent from time Slaughter-houses to time to let any public Slaughter-house by public auction may be letor tender for any time not exceeding one year subject to such conditions as he shall think fit and the rental so obtained shall be paid to the Provincial Treasurer for the public use of the Province. 20. It shall be lawful for any lessee of any Public Slaughter-house, P.,. * ' keeper may recover Slaughter-house to sue tor and recover in his own name charges, payment of any charges due and payable for slaughtering cattle at such Slaughter-house. 21. It shall be lawful for the Superintendent from time Provisions of section to time as he shall see fit by Proclamation in the Provincial tosrtoms^^ Government Gazette to extend the provisions of Section 8 of this Act to any other town or place within the Province of Auckland and thenceforth the said section and section 16 hereof shall be read as if the name of such town or place had been inserted in the said section in addition to the City of Auckland. 22. All penalties imposed under this Act shall be Penalties recoverable in a summary way. recoverable in a summary way. 23. Nothing herein contained shall affect the rights or Saving of existing liabilities of any lessee for the current year of any existing nght3 ' Public Slaughter-house. SCHEDULE. s. d. For every calf, not exceeding one year old, and for every sheep, boar, sow pig, goat, or other head of small cattle......... 0 0 6 For every bull, cow, heifer, steer, or other head of great cattle... 0 2 6 G. MAURICE O'RORKE, SPEAKER. Passed the Provincial Council the twentyeighth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. RICHARD J. O' STJLLIVAN, Clerk of Council. On this fifteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, I hereby assent to this Act on behalf of the Governor. EREDK. WHITAKER, SUPERINTENDENT. Printed under the authority of the Provincial Government of the Province of Auckland, by W. C. "WILSON "Wyndham Street, Auckland, Printer for the time being to the Provincial Government.