Interpretation

In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires“animal” means the male, female or young of any of the following species: goat, swine, cattle or sheep; CAP. 291. “authorised officer” means a medical officer of health or any person authorised in writing by the Minister under the provisions of section 2(1) Food and Drug Act to exercise any of the powers conferred by that Act; “edible” means that the product is intended for human food; “inedible” means adulterated, not inspected or not intended for human food; “lairage” means that part of a slaughterhouse used for the confinement of animals awaiting slaughter there; Food and Drugs 61 “meat” means the edible part of the muscle of any animal which is skeletal or which is found in the tongue, diaphragm, heart or oesophagus with or without the accompanying and overlaying fat, and the portions of bone, skin, sinew, nerve and blood vessels which normally accompany the muscle tissue and which are not normally separated from it in the process of dressing but does not include the muscle found in the lips, snout or ears; CAP. 291. “occupier” means the person licensed under the provisions of Part VII of the Food and Drugs Act; “offal” means any edible part other than meat which has been derived from any animal; “slaughter hall” means that part of the slaughterhouse in which animals are slaughtered or carcasses are dressed; “slaughterhouse” means any premises in any area to which the provisions of the Slaughter of Animals Act, apply for slaughtering animals, the flesh of which is intended for sale for human consumption, and includes any place available in connection therewith for the confinement of animals while awaiting slaughter there or for keeping, or subjecting to any treatment or process, products of the slaughtering of animals there and any place available in connection with a slaughterhouse and used for the manufacture of bacon, ham, sausages, meat pies or other manufactured meat products or for the storage of meat used in such manufacture. CAP. 154.