APPENDIX I 



PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1875 



Unsound Meat, Milk, etc. — Power of Medical Officer of Health to inspect. — 

 116. Any Medical Officer of Health or Inspector of Nuisances may at all 

 reasonable times inspect and examine any animal carcase, meat, poultry, game, 

 flesh, fish, fruit, vegetables, corn, bread, flour, or milk exposed for sale, or 

 deposited in any place for the purpose of sale, or of preparation for sale, and 

 intended for the food of man, the proof that the same was not exposed or 

 deposited for any such purpose, or was not intended for the food of man, 

 resting with the party charged ; and if any such animal carcase, meat, poultry? 

 game, flesh, fish, fruit, vegetables, corn, bread, flour, or milk appears to such 

 medical officer or inspector to be diseased or unsound, or unwholesome, or 

 unfit for the food of man, he may seize and carry away the same himself or by 

 an assistant, in order to have the same dealt with by a justice. 



Power of fustice to Order Destruction of Unsound Meat, etc. — 117. If it 

 appears to the justice that any animal carcase, meat, poultry, game, flesh, fish, 

 fruit, vegetables, corn, bread, flour, or milk so seized is diseased, or unsound, 

 or unwholesome, or unfit for the food of man, he shall condemn the same, and 

 order it to be destroyed or so disposed of so as to prevent it from being exposed 

 for sale or used for the food of man ; and the person to whom the same belongs, 

 or did belong at the time of exposure for sale, or in whose possession or on 

 whose premises the same was found, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 

 twenty pounds for every animal carcase, or fish, or piece of meat, flesh, or fish, 

 or any poultry or game, or for the parcel of fruit, vegetables, corn, bread, or 

 flour, or for the milk so condemned, or, at the discretion of the justice, without 

 the infliction of a fine, to imprisonment for a term of not more than three 

 months. 



The justice who, under this section, is empowered to convict the offender 

 may be either the justice who may have ordered the article to be disposed of or 

 destroyed, or any other justice having jurisdiction in the place. 



