Clause 80

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

Any person who slaughters any animal or brings into or has in his possession or sells or exposes for sale any flesh in contravention of the provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or to both such imprisonment and fine.

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

A Health Officer or any public officer authorised in writing by the Director in that behalf may, at any time of the night or day, 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 the provisions of subsection (1) of this section.

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

In any case where a Health Officer has reasonable cause to believe that an offence has been committed under the provisions of this section or section 82 of this Ordinance the Health Officer or a person generally or specially authorised in writing by him in that behalf may seize the flesh in respect of which such offence is believed to have been committed and may sell or otherwise dispose of it as the Health Officer may think fit and the proceeds of sale, if any, shall be disposed of in such manner as a Magistrate’s Court may direct.

The production by a prosecutor of a certificate purporting to be under the hand of the Health Officer to the effect that the animal the flesh of which has been seized pursuant to the provisions of subsection (6) of this section had not been slaughtered at a government slaughter-house shall be sufficient evidence of the facts stated therein unless the defendant requires the Health Officer to be called as a witness in which case he shall give notice thereof to the prosecutor not less than three clear days before the day on which the summons is returnable.

In this section “flesh” includes the flesh 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, but does not include the flesh of any animal slaughtered outside Singapore canned, salted or preserved by any process.