Western Australian Consolidated Acts

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MEAT INDUSTRY AUTHORITY ACT 1976 - SECT 24C

24C .         Duties of owner of prescribed abattoir

        (1)         Subject to subsection (3), the owner of a prescribed abattoir shall ensure that every carcase of a prescribed animal slaughtered in that abattoir for human consumption in the State which carcase possesses the characteristics prescribed in relation to the branding of carcases of that kind of animal — 

            (a)         is branded in accordance with the requirements of the regulations; and

            (b)         except with the written permission of the Authority, is not branded in any manner other than or in addition to the manner provided for in the regulations,

                before the carcase is removed from the abattoir.

        Penalty: $2 000.

        (2)         Subject to subsection (3), the owner of a prescribed abattoir shall ensure that no carcase of a prescribed animal slaughtered in that abattoir for human consumption in the State which carcase does not possess the characteristics prescribed in relation to the branding of carcases of that kind of animal — 

            (a)         is branded in accordance with the requirements of the regulations applicable to the branding of carcases which possess the characteristics prescribed in relation to the branding of carcases of that kind of animal; and

            (b)         except with the written permission of the Authority, is branded in any manner which describes or implies or purports to describe or imply the definition of the meat of the carcase.

        Penalty: $2 000.

        (3)         This section does not impose any obligation on the owner of a prescribed abattoir with respect to the carcase of an animal of a kind in relation to which that abattoir is not under section 24A a prescribed abattoir.

        [Section 24C inserted by No. 32 of 1982 s. 8; amended by No. 32 of 1993 s. 22.]