Licence for slaughter-houses

(1) The owner of any place within municipal limits which is used as a slaughter-house for the slaughtering of animals or for the skinning or cutting up of any carcasses, shall apply to the Commissioner for a licence sixty days before the opening of such place as a slaughter-house or before the commencement of the year for which the licence is sought to be renewed, as the case may be.

1. (2) The Commissioner may, by an order and subject to such restrictions and regulations as to supervision and inspection as he thinks fit, grant or refuse to grant such licence.
   • • 363. Slaughter of animals during festivals and ceremonies.- The Commissioner may allow any animal to be slaughtered in such place as he thinks fit on occasions of festivals and ceremonies or as a special measure.
   • • 364. Slaughter of animals for sale as food.- No person shall --
   • (a) slaughter within the municipality, except in a public or licensed slaughter-house, any cattle, horse, sheep, goat or pig for sale as food, or skin or cut up any carcass without or otherwise than in conformity with a licence from the Commissioner; or
   • (b) dry any skin or permit it to be dried in such manner as to cause a nuisance: The section came into force on the 26th day of January, 1974 vide Extraordinary Gazette No. 11 dated 17th January, 1974.