AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

PUBLIC HEALTH (MEAT) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

No. 13 of 1985

The amendments to the Public Health (Meat) Regulations alter the legislation to reflect changes in slaughtering in the Australian Capital Territory and in importation of meat into the Territory resulting from the introduction of a national meat inspection scheme.

The Public Health (Meat) Regulations (Amendment) substitutes a new definition of “animal” in regulation 2 of these Regulations for the existing one to refer to the Meat Inspection Act 1983.  Regulation 3 has also been amended to refer to the new arrangements introduced as a result of the Meat Inspection Act 1983 by deleting references to “a public abattoir or an approved slaughtering place” and branding in accordance with the Meat Ordinance 1931 and Regulations under it and substituting references to “an abattoir” and the Meat Inspection Act 1983.