Chapter XI — MARKET, SLAUGHTER-HOUSES, TRADES AND OCCUPATIONS

Section 275Power to regulate certain activities

Section 275: Power to regulate certain activities

275. Power to regulate certain activities

A Board may, by order, regulate all or any of the following matters, namely:—

(a)

the days on, and the hours during, which any private market or private slaughter-house may be kept open for use;

(b)

the regulation of the design, ventilation and drainage of such market or slaughter-houses, and the material to be used in the construction thereof;

(c)

the keeping of such markets and slaughter-houses and lands and buildings appertaining thereto in a clean and sanitary condition, the removal of filth and refuse therefrom, and the supply therein of pure water and of a sufficient number of latrines and urinals for the use of persons using or frequenting the same;

(d)

the manner in which animals shall be stalled at a slaughter-house;

(e)

the manner in which animals may be slaughtered;

(f)

the disposal or destruction of animals offered for slaughter which are, from disease or any other cause, unfit for human consumption;

(g)

the destruction of carcasses which from disease or any other cause are found after slaughter to be unfit for human consumption; and

(h)

any other matter with respect to the regulation of such markets and slaughter-houses.