Section 2
In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires –
"appliance" includes any machinery, implement, apparatus, work tool, instrument, utensil, block, wrapper, keg, can, box, package, basket, vessel, container, receptacle or any other thing used or apparently used at or for any purpose of or connected with a slaughterhouse;
"carcase" includes any meat or offal pertaining to a carcase of a livestock;
"Director" means the Director of Veterinary Services and Animal Industry Sabah;
"Government slaughterhouse" means any slaughterhouse established, built and owned by the government;
"inspector" means a veterinary inspector appointed by the Director under the Meat
Inspection Rules 2003;
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"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;
"meat" means the edible part of a livestock used as food for human consumption, including bones, offal, skins, nerves and blood vessels that normally accompany the muscle tissues and are not separated from it in the process of dressing whether fresh, chilled, frozen, pickled, salted, smoked, dried, cooked, canned or other preparations;
"Minister" means the Minister charged with the responsibility for animal husbandry and veterinary services;
"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 a poultry within the meaning of these Rules;
"processing" means any activity that pertains to the preparation of meat or edible offal from a carcase and includes such work as dressing, cutting, cleaning, deboning, packing or any work as may be required of it in the slaughterhouse;
"slaughterhouse" means any place, kept or used for the slaughtering and or 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;
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"Veterinary Authority" means the Director or any officer or officers appointed in writing by him to be a Veterinary Authority under these Rules.
Government slaughterhouse.