Licence for slaughter-houses

Licence for slaughter-houses:

1. (1) The owner of any place within municipal limits or at a distance within three miles of such limits which has been in use before the commencement of this Act as a slaughter-house for the slaughtering of animals or for the skinning or cutting up of any carcasses, shall apply to the Executive Council for a licence not less than thirty and not more than ninety days before the opening of such place as a slaughter-house or the commencement of the year for which the licence is sought to be renewed, as the case may be: Provided that this sub-section shall not take effect in any area outside the municipal limits except with the previous sanction of the State Government.
2. (2) The Executive Council may, by an order and subject to such restrictions and regulations as to supervision and inspection as it thinks fit, grant or refuse to grant such licence.