On 26/05/2013,
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incorporating all amendments published on or before 26/05/2013.
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21.
—(1) Where the Director-General or an authorised officer finds that any condition in a licensed slaughter-house, processing establishment or cold store has become dangerous to health or may hinder in any manner the suppression of disease or that the licensed slaughter-house, processing establishment or cold store has been or is being kept in an unhygienic condition, the Director-General or authorised officer may —
(a)
give written directives requiring that the slaughter-house, processing establishment or cold store, as the case may be, be closed for such time as the Director-General may determine; or
(b)
give directives for the immediate stoppage of any slaughtering, processing or other work until he is satisfied that the owner or occupier of the slaughter-house, processing establishment or cold store, as the case may be, has taken action to render the slaughter-house, processing establishment or cold store in a clean and hygienic condition again.
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(2) The Director-General or an authorised officer shall, as soon as possible after he has given written directives under subsection (1)(a), inform the owner or occupier of the slaughter-house, processing establishment or cold store of the reasons why the directives were given.
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(3) Any person who fails to comply with any directive given to him by the Director-General or an authorised officer under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or to both.
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