Wholesome Meat Order, 2011 · As enacted · Part III · Slaughtering Centres
16. Owners and occupiers of licensed slaughtering centres to ensure that animals are fit for slaughter
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
It shall be the duty of the owner and occupier of a licensed slaughtering centre to ensure that -
slaughtering centre
"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;
{a) no animal which is diseased or which is, for any other reason, unfit for human consumption is slaughtered at the slaughtering centre; and
{b) the carcass of any animal which, upon being slaughtered at the slaughtering centre, is found to have any disease or to be otherwise unfit for human consumption is destroyed or disposed of in such manner as the
disease
"disease" means any animal disease and any other disease as is likely to infect human beings;
Director may determine.
Director
"Director" means the Director of Agriculture and Agrifood; 79 16th. FEBRUARY, 2011
The owner or occupier of a licensed slaughtering centre who fails to comply with any of his duties under subsection ( 1 J is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or both.
In any proceedings against the owner or occupier of a licensed slaughtering centre for failing to comply with his duty under subsection (1){a), it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that -
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{a)
until the animal had been slaughtered, he did not know and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained that the animal was diseased or was otherwise unfit for human consumption; and
{b)
he took all reasonable precautions and exercised all due diligence to avoid the commission of such offence by himself or by any person under his controL
Terms defined in s 2
Director
Defined · s 2"Director" means the Director of Agriculture and Agrifood; 79 16th. FEBRUARY, 2011
disease
Defined · s 2"disease" means any animal disease and any other disease as is likely to infect human beings;
slaughtering centre
Defined · s 2"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;