Section 6

No animal intended to be used as human food shall be slaughtered at any place other than at a licensed slaughter-house or at one of the slaughter-houses provided by the Director and no person shall bring into Singapore or have in his possession or sell or expose for sale any meat of such an animal, unless the animal has been slaughtered at a licensed slaughter-house or at one of the Government slaughter-houses.

Any person who slaughters any animal or brings into Singapore or has in his possession or sells or exposes for sale any meat in contravention of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $2,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.

The occupier of any premises in which any animal is slaughtered in contravention of subsection (1) shall be deemed to have slaughtered the animal, until it is proved that it was slaughtered without his knowledge and consent.

Any veterinary authority may at any time enter into, inspect and search any premises in which he has reason to suspect that any animal is being or has been recently slaughtered in contravention of subsection (1).

When provision has been made for the marking of the carcases of animals slaughtered in Government slaughter-houses to denote that the animals have been so slaughtered, any carcase or part of a carcase which does not bear such a slaughter-house mark shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to have been slaughtered in contravention of subsection (1).

In any case where any veterinary authority has reasonable cause to believe that an offence has been committed under this section or section 8, he may seize the meat in respect of which the offence is believed to have been committed and may sell or otherwise dispose of it as the Director may think fit and the proceeds of sale, if any, shall be disposed of in such manner as a Magistrate’s Court may direct.

A document purporting to be a certificate under the hand of the Director to the effect that an animal, the meat of which has been seized pursuant to subsection (6), was not slaughtered at a Government slaughter-house or a licensed slaughter-house shall be conclusive evidence of that fact.

In this section “meat” includes the meat of animals slaughtered outside Singapore which is brought into Singapore in a frozen or chilled condition without a licence issued by the appropriate veterinary authority.