PART VIIAMENDMENT AND REPEAL OF PROVISIONS RELATING TO DISTRICT COUNCILS

Miscellaneous amendments of other statutory provisions

Extension of licensing of knackers' yards by councils39

1

In section 2 of the [1878 c. 52] Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878 for the definition of “knackers' yard” there shall be substituted the following definition—

“knacker's yard” means any place used for the purposes of, or in connection with,—

a

the slaughtering of animals not slaughtered for the purpose of the flesh being used for human consumption; or

b

the flaying, cutting up or processing of the carcases of animals the flesh of which is not intended for human consumption;

2

Section 106 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878 (which requires the owner or occupier of any licensed or registered knacker's yard to affix a notice to the premises) shall cease to have effect.