Section 2
Section 2
Interpretation.
In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires –
"carcase" includes any meat or offal pertaining to a carcase of a livestock;
"Director" means the Director of Veterinary Services and Animal Industry Sabah;
"diseased" means infected or affected with or by disease or parasite, or affected with any defect, inferiority or abnormal condition, so as to be unfit for human consumption;
"edible" means intended for use as food for human consumption;
"inedible" means adulterated, uninspected, rejected or not intended for use as food for human consumption;
"inspector" means a veterinary inspector appointed by the Director under rule 3;
"livestock" means any cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig, rabbit, poultry and such other animals or birds declared by the Director by notification in the Gazette to be a livestock within the meaning of these Rules;
"manager" includes the person operating a slaughterhouse or anyone engaged in the slaughter of livestock for human consumption;
“meat" means the edible part of a livestock used as food for human consumption, including bones, offals, skins, nerves and blood vessels, that normally accompany the muscle tissues and are not separated from it in the process of dressing
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whether fresh, chilled, frozen, pickled, salted, smoked, dried, cooked, canned or other preparations;
"poultry" means domestic fowls, chicks, ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowls, pigeons, ostrich and such other birds declared by the Director by notification in the
Gazette to be poultry within the meaning of these Rules;
"premises" includes any place, vehicle, ship or vessel;
"slaughterhouse" means any place, kept or used for the slaughtering and processing of any livestock for human consumption and includes any place appertaining or belonging to any slaughterhouse used for –
(a)
keeping or drafting of livestock intended for slaughter thereat;
(b)
dealing with the carcases or any part thereof of livestock;
(c)
preparing or manufacturing tallow;
(d)
keeping or storing hides, skins or bones; or
(e)
boiling down or otherwise disposing of offal, but does not include a place where livestock is slaughtered by any person solely for human consumption by such person, members of his family, or his employees, provided that the carcase, meat or other product hereof is not sold;
"unfit for human consumption" includes unsound, unsafe, unwholesome or unfit for human consumption by reason of disease, defect, inferiority, abnormal condition, putrefaction, decomposition, emaciation or exposure to contamination by dust, flies, insects, vermin, animals or exposure to contamination by lethal insecticides, or by any other means whatsoever;
"Veterinary Authority" means the Director or any officer or officers appointed in writing by him to be a Veterinary Authority under these Rules.