Wholesome Meat Order, 2011

This Order may be cited as the Wholesome Meat Order, 2011.

The long title of this Order is "An Order to regulate the treatment of animals for slaughter and the processing, packing, inspection, import, distribution, sale, transhipment and export of meat and meat products and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto".

In this Order, unless the context otherwise requires

"animal" means any bird and mammal;

"authorised examiner" means a person appointed as such under section 3(3)

and includes an authorised officer;

"authorised officer" means a person appointed as such under section 3(2);

"cold store" means any chiller, freezer, cold room or other refrigerated facility used for the storage of meat and meat products and includes any refrigerated conveyance used· for the transportation of meat and meat products in the course of any trade or business;

"conveyance" includes any aircraft, vessel, train, vehicle or any other artificial contrivance, whether mechanically propelled or otherwise, used or capable of being used as a means of transport on land, water or air;

"Director" means the Director of Agriculture and Agrifood;

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"disease" means any animal disease and any other disease as is likely to infect human beings;

"examination" includes laboratory analysis;

"export" does not include the taking out of Brunei Darussalam of any goods in transit or any goods which are being transhipped;

"goods" means animals, meat and meat products;

"goods in transit" means goods that are .brought into Brunei Darussalam solely for the purpose of taking them out of Brunei Darussalam and that remain at all times in the conveyance that brought them into Brunei

Darussalam;

"label" means any written, printed, pictorial or other descriptive matter that is to be applied or attached to or included in, or that accompanies or is to accompany, any meat, meat product or the package or receptacle thereof;

"licensee" means the holder of a licence granted under this Order;

"meat" means a carcass or any part thereof which is derived from animals;

"meat product" means any product or by-product of meat which is intended for human consumption;

"Minister" means the Minister of Industry and Primary Resources;

"occupier" -

(a} in relation to any premises or conveyance, means the person in occupation of the premises or conveyance or having the charge, management or control thereof; and

(b}

in relation to any part of any premises different parts of which are occupied by different persons, means the person in occupation or having the charge, management or control of that part;

"officer of customs" has the same meaning as in the Customs Order, 2006

(S 39/06);

"owner"

(a} in relation to any premises or conveyance, means the person for the time being receiving the rent of the premises or conveyance whether on his own account or as agent or trustee or as receiver, or who would receive the same if the premises or conveyance were let or chartered; and

{b)

in relation to any meat, meat product or any other item to which this Order applies, includes the person who is the consignor or consignee thereof;

"permit holder" means the holder of a permit granted under this Order;

"premises" includes houses, buildings, structures, lands, tenements, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained or not under statutory authority;

"process" includes cutting and the use of any method of manufacture, preservation or preparation;

"processing establishment" means any factory, plant or other premises where meat and meat products, as the case may be, are processed for distribution to wholesalers or retailers or for export;

"receptacle", in relation to any meat and meat product, means any basket, carton, bag, box, packet or article which contains the meat or meat product and where any such receptacle is contained in another such receptacle includes the latter receptacle;

"sell" means to sell by way of retail or wholesale dealing and includes barter, or offering or attempting to sell, or receiving, exposing, sending or delivering for sale, or causing or allowing to be sold, offered or exposed for sale;

"slaughtering centre" means any slaughtering centre declared fit for providing halal meat according to Hukum Syara' under rules made under section 16 of the Halal Meat Act (Chapter 183);

"tranship" means to bring any goods into Brunei Darussalam by land, sea or air from any place which is outside Brunei Darussalam and thereafter to remove those goods from the conveyance in which they were brought into

Brunei Darussalam and

{a) return them to that same conveyance; or

{b)

transfer them to another conveyance for the purpose of being taken out of Brunei Darussalam, whether those goods are to be transferred directly between conveyances or whether they are to be landed and stored in Brunei Darussalam after they were brought into Brunei Darussalam, pending their being taken out of

Brunei Darussalam;

"vehicle" means any conveyance used to carry goods by land.

For the purposes of this Order, any meat or meat product shall be deemed to be adulterated if -

The Director shall be responsible for the administration of this Order, subject to any directions of the Minister.

The Minister may, with the approval of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang

The Director may delegate the exercise of all or any of the powers conferred or duties imposed upon him by this Order to any authorised officer.

The Director and any authorised officer shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of the Penal Code (Chapter 22).

Every authorised officer, when exerctsmg any of his powers or performing any of his duties under this Order, shall declare his office and shall on demand, produce to any person against whom he is taking action such identification card as the Director, the Commissioner of Police or the Controller of