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British and Irish Meat Protection.
A BILL
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Prevent Foreign and Colonial Meat being sold as British a.d.
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and Irish Meat.
BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :— 5 1.
This Act may be cited as the British and Irish Meat Short title.
Protection Act, 1903.
2.
The words "foreign meat" and "colonial meat" shall Definitions.
include all meat imported into the United Kingdom which shall haye been killed, frozen, or chilled, in any place outside the 10 United Kingdom and the meat of animals killed within ten days
(or other period fixed by the Board of Agriculture) after arrival in the United Kingdom from places outside the United Kingdom.
3.
Any person exposing, or offering for sale, or having on his Offences premises for the purpose of sale, or attempting to sell, or selling, under Act-15 either by wholesale or retail, any foreign or colonial meat, as defined
by this Act, as or for home-grown British or Irish meat shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.
4.
Any person exposing or offering for sale, or haying on his Notice as premises for the purpose of sale, either by wholesale or retail, Jf^^ia 20 foreign or colonial meat as defined by this Act, shall exhibit and to be
keep exhibited in a conspicuous place upon the premises where e g^gg such person carries on his business, the words, "Foreign meat," or " Colonial meat," or both as the case may be.
Such words shall be printed in capital letters of not less than two inches square, and so 25 as to be clearly visible to the customers and purchasers.
If any person exposes or offers for sale,'or has on his premises for the purpose of sale, either by wholesale or retail, British or Irish meat in addition to foreign or colonial meat, he shall in like manner
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