07/09/1922:

THE PUBLIC HEALTH (FOREIGN MEAT) (IRELAND) REGULATIONS, 1908. THE PUBLIC HEALTH (FOREIGN MEAT) (IRELAND) AMENDING REGULATIONS, 1909.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH (FOREIGN MEAT) (IRELAND) REGULATIONS, 1908. THE PUBLIC HEALTH (FOREIGN MEAT) (IRELAND) AMENDING REGULATIONS, 1909.

THE MINISTER FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT in pursuance of the above Regulations HEREBY GIVES NOTICE that, for the purposes of those Regulations the Official Certificate of which the details are set forth in the representation or design in the Schedule appended to and forming part of this Notice is hereby declared to be admissible, from the date of the publication of this Notice, in the manner, to the extent, and subject to the rules and conditions prescribed in this Notice, as evidence that the pig from which has been derived the meat in relation to which any such Certificate is used, has been certified by a competent authority in the place of origin to be free from disease at the time of slaughter, and that the meat has been certified by the like authority to have been dressed, or prepared, and packed with the needful observance of all requirements for the prevention of danger arising to public health from the meat as an article of food:

AND FURTHER, with respect to the manner, to the extent, and to the rules and conditions in, to and subject to which every Official Certificate is admissible as evidence for any such purpose as is herein-before described the Minister for Local Government hereby prescribes as follows, that is to say:—

(i) An Official Certificate used in relation to foreign meat, or in relation to a box, case, receptacle, or package containing foreign meat, shall be admissible as aforesaid only where the meat is derived from a pig.

(ii) An Official Certificate in the form of a label shall be admissible as aforesaid only where the label is securely affixed or attached to any foreign meat, or to any box, case, receptacle,, or package containing a foreign meat; and where the label so affixed or attached has not in any other circumstances, or on any other occasion, been used as an Official Certificate.

(iii) In this Notice, any word or expression to which a special meaning is assigned by the Public Health (Foreign Meat) (Ireland) Amending Regulations, 1909, has the same meaning as in those Regulations.

SCHEDULE.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

A certificate in the form of a label having on it the subjoined representation or design, except that the circular device in the centre of the label, the words "Pork from animals free from disease at time of slaughter" and the serial number are printed in orange colour, and that in place of the serial number 152, other serial numbers may be substituted.

GIVEN under my Seal of Office this Seventh day of September, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-two.

LIAM T. MAC COSGAIR,

Minister for Local Government.