Hong Kong Regulations

SLAUGHTERHOUSES REGULATION - SECT 16

Segregated food animals may be slaughtered

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) An authorized officer may cause a food animal which has been segregated
under section 15 to be slaughtered in isolation.

(2) Where a food animal is slaughtered under subsection (1), the
authorized officer shall notify the licensee or his manager of the slaughter
and the licensee or his manager shall inform the owner of the food animal.

(3) An authorized officer may cause the carcass, the whole or part of the
dressed carcass or the offal of a food animal which is slaughtered under
subsection (1) and found to be unfit for human consumption under section 21(1)
to be destroyed in such manner as he thinks fit. (Enacted 1991. 78 of 1999 s.
7)