PART 5ENFORCEMENT, OFFENCES AND SUPPLEMENTAL PROVISIONS

Offences: licences (bovine carcases)22

1

If classification of a bovine carcase is carried out at an approved slaughterhouse—

a

without a licence granted under regulation 8; or

b

in breach of any term or condition of such a licence,

the person who carries out the classification and the operator of that slaughterhouse are each guilty of an offence.

2

If classification of a bovine carcase is carried out at an approved slaughterhouse by means of automated grading equipment—

a

without a licence granted under regulation 9 for the use of that equipment at that slaughterhouse; or

b

in breach of any term or condition of such a licence,

the person who carries out the classification and the operator of that slaughterhouse are each guilty of an offence.

3

Any person who makes an alteration to a licence granted under regulation 8 or 9 with the intent to deceive is guilty of an offence.