Wholesome Meat and Fish Act 1999 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 3 · Licensing of Slaughter-Houses, Processing Establishments and Cold Stores
11. Slaughter of animals to be carried out at licensed slaughter‑houses or premises permitted by Director‑General
Feedback & supportA person must not slaughter any animal which is intended for human consumption or permit any such animal to be slaughtered on any premises, unless —
those premises have been licensed by the Director‑General as a slaughter‑house under this Act and the slaughter of the animal is carried out in accordance with the rules and the conditions of the licence; or
the Director‑General has granted a permit to such person allowing the person to slaughter the animal on those premises for any special reason and the slaughter of the animal is carried out in accordance with the rules and the conditions of the permit.
Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.
For the purpose of this section, the occupier of any premises in which any animal is slaughtered in contravention of subsection (1) is deemed to have slaughtered that animal, until the occupier proves that it was slaughtered without the occupier’s knowledge or consent.
premises
“premises” includes messuages, houses, buildings, structures, lands, tenements, easements and hereditaments of any tenure, whether open or enclosed, whether built on or not, whether public or private, and whether maintained or not under statutory authority;