Western Australian Consolidated Acts

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MEAT INDUSTRY AUTHORITY ACT 1976 - SECT 5

5 .         Terms used

                In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears — 

        abattoir means any premises or place used for or in connection with the slaughtering of animals for sale for human consumption and includes holding yards and the like places used in or in connection with the slaughtering of those animals;

        Account means Western Australian Meat Industry Authority Account established under section 15B;

        animal means cattle, sheep, pigs, and goats and also includes any other animal declared under section 6 to be a kind of animal to which this Act applies;

        Authority means the Western Australian Meat Industry Authority established by this Act;

        brand includes any mark or stamp;

        carcase means the body of a slaughtered animal and includes a reference to the meat, or any other part of the animal, obtained from the body;

        Chairman means the Chairman of the Authority;

        declared animal means a kind of animal which is declared for the purposes of Part IVA under section 24B;

        Deputy Chairman means the Deputy Chairman of the Authority;

        Director General means the person holding or acting in the office of Director General of the Department of Agriculture  ³ ;

        inspector means a person appointed under section 24G to be an inspector for the purposes of this Act;

        meat means the carcase, or any portion of the carcase, of an animal which has been slaughtered, and is intended to be used, for human consumption, whether fresh or subjected to chilling, freezing, preserving, salting or any other process of manufacture or preservation, and includes any brine or other liquid in which it is preserved;

        member means a member of the Authority;

        Midland Saleyard means the saleyards formerly maintained and managed by the Western Australian Meat Commission and formerly an adjunct to the Midland Junction Abattoir;

        officer means a public service officer employed in a Department under the Public Sector Management Act 1994   ⁴ ;

        owner includes, with respect to an abattoir, any person who is the manager thereof or who is the employer of persons working at the abattoir;

        package includes sack, bag, barrel, carton, box, parcel or other container;

        premises includes land and buildings and any vehicle or conveyance of any kind;

        prescribed abattoir means an abattoir which is prescribed for the purposes of Part IVA under section 24A;

        prescribed animal means a kind of animal which is prescribed for the purposes of Part IVA under section 24B;

        processing works includes any boning room, smallgoods manufacturing facility, or other place where carcases are processed, in so far as it operates otherwise than by way of retail trading;

        sale , without limiting the scope of the primary meaning, includes — 

            (a)         offering, exposing, receiving, supplying or possessing for the purposes of sale;

            (b)         placing on the market for sale;

            (c)         bargaining, barter, exchange, loaning or giving;

            (d)         agreeing to sell;

            (e)         sending or delivering for sale or on sale; and

            (f)         authorising, directing, causing, permitting or suffering any act referred to in paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) of this interpretation;

        saleyard means a place, whether or not a reserve, where animals are held pending or for the purpose of sale.

        [Section 5 amended by No. 32 of 1982 s. 5 (as amended by No. 7 of 1984 s. 6); No. 32 of 1993 s. 13; No. 32 of 1994 s. 19; No. 77 of 2006 Sch. 1 cl. 183(1).]