Hong Kong Regulations

SLAUGHTERHOUSES REGULATION - SECT 15

Power of authorized officer to examine and cause segregation of food animals

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) The Director may require any food animal admitted to a licensed 
slaughterhouse to be examined by an authorized officer. (78 of 1999 s. 7)

(2) If an authorized officer has reason to believe that a food  animal
admitted to a licensed slaughterhouse is suffering from disease, contamination
or injury, he may direct the licensee to segregate the food  animal from the
other food animals and detain it in an isolation lairage of the
licensed slaughterhouse.

(3) No person shall remove any food animal from the isolation lairage of a
licensed slaughterhouse without the permission of an authorized officer.
(Enacted 1991)