Public Health Act, 2012 (Act 851)
Section 108: (1) A person shall not use any premises for the slaughter of
animals or cause or permit an animal to be slaughtered with intent to supply, sell, offer the meat for sale or expose the meat for sale for human or animal consumption, unless the premises are registered by the District Assembly.
(2) A person shall not commit public nuisance by slaughtering an animal or dressing the carcass of an animal for human consumption or animal consumption in a place other than a slaughter house where there is a slaughter house designated for the area.
(3) Despite subsection (2), a District Assembly may for good cause, by a permit signed by the District Chief Executive, permit the slaughter of an animal in a place which is not a slaughter house.
(4)The Veterinary Services Department shall in collaboration with the Authority carry out meat insepction in slaughter houses.
(5)The Minister may,acting in accordance with the advice ofthe Authority, and in consultation with the Veterinary Service Department by legislative instrument make Regulations relating to the sale of meat for human or animal consumption.
(6) Regulations under subsection (5) shall
(a) prescribe the methods, instruments or appliances which may
be used to carry out the slaughtering;
(b) provide for and regulate the inspection of slaughter and butchery facilities to determine whether or not they are suitable for the intended purposes;
(c) provide for the disposal, treatment or processing of waste matters, refuse and the by-products resulting from the slaughtering of animals in slaughterhouses;
(d) prescribe the places and the circumstances in which ananimal may be slaughtered in a place, other than a slaugh- ter house, and the actions to be taken in the event of that slaughter;
(e)regulate the treatment and disposal of an animal,the carcass or viscera or a part of any of them, in relation to which a breach of this Act has been committed and the offender convicted;
(f) provide for any other matter in relation to slaughter and slaughter facilities which are necessary for the proper main- tenance of quality standards in respect of meat intended for human or animal consumption.
(7) Regulations for carrying out meat inspection shall be in accor- dance with the standards of the Codex Alimentarius Commission of the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Health Organisation.
(8)Regulations made under this section shall not deny a religious community reasonable facilities for obtaining food or the flesh of animals slaughtered by the method specially required by the religion.
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