(1) No person shall bring into any local area without the permission in writing of the Health Officer, the flesh of any animal slaughtered outside the local area or otherwise than in a slaughter house maintained or licensed by the Government or by a local authority.
(2) Any flesh brought into the local area in contravention of sub-section (1) may be seized by the Health Officer or any officer or servant of the local authority authorised by him in this behalf and sell or otherwise dispose of as the Health Officer may direct;
and in the case of sale, the sale proceeds shall be credited to the funds of the local authority.
(3) Nothing in this section shall apply to ---
(a) cured or preserved meat, or
(b) flesh or meat carried in course of transit through any local area for consumption outside the limits thereof; or
(c) flesh or meat brought into the local area for immediate domestic consumption and not for sale:
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Provided that the local authority may, by public notice, direct that the provisions of this section shall apply to cured or preserved meat of any specified description or brought from any specified place.
Rules
97. The Government may make rules for prevention of food infections or food poisoning and for other matters necessary for the effective implementation of the provisions of this chapter.
CHAPTER – IX NUISANCES AND OFFENSIVE TRADES What are nuisances
98. Without prejudice to the definition of "nuisance" in clause (23) of section 2, the following shall be deemed specifically to be nuisances for the purposes of this chapter, namely: --
(a) any premises in such a state as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance;
(b) any pond, pool, ditch, gutter, water course, latrines, cesspool, drain or ash pit which is in such a state as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance;
(c) any animal kept in such place or manner as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance;
(d) any accumulation or deposit of refuse or other matter which is prejudicial to health or a nuisance;
(e) any factory (not being a factory governed by the Factories Act, 1948), workshop or workplace which is not provided with sufficient means of ventilation or in which sufficient ventilation is not maintained or which is kept clean or free from noxious effluvia or which is so over-crowded while work is carried on as to be prejudicial to the health of persons employed therein;
(f) any noise, vibration, dust, cinders, smoke, irritating smell or offensive odor produced by a factory, workshop or workplace which is nuisance to the neighbourhood.
Removal of nuisances