This Act may be cited as the Slaughtering and Inspection Amendment Act, 1927, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Slaughtering and Inspection Act, 1908 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

Where pursuant to the principal Act a local authority has established an abattoir for its district or any part thereof, the reconstruction or extension of the abattoir (including within the meaning of such terms the acquisition of other or additional lands, the erection of new or additional buildings, and the equipment or re-equipment thereof) shall be deemed to be the construction of a public work, and the local authority may from time to time for any such purpose raise a special loan under the local governing Act (as defined by the principal Act), but by way of special order and without taking a poll of the ratepayers on the subject.

The provisions of section eleven of the principal Act shall, with the necessary modifications, apply with respect to every special loan authorized by a local authority pursuant to the last preceding subsection.

No local authority shall proceed with the work of reconstructing or extending its abattoir until the Minister has approved the plans of the proposed work and any new or additional site proposed to be acquired.

Section twenty-seven of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting the word “five” from the second proviso, and substituting the word “seven”

No person shall under the authority conferred by section seventeen of the principal Act sell or expose for sale in any district for which an abattoir has been established any meat from stock slaughtered at another abattoir unless he pays to the controlling authority of such first-mentioned abattoir such fees as are agreed upon, being in no case less than the fees that would be chargeable for the use of the abattoir (exclusive of the cost of slaughtering) if the stock had been slaughtered therein.

The provisions of the second proviso to section twenty-seven of the principal Act as amended by this Act shall, with the necessary modifications, apply in respect of fees payable under this section as if they were fees payable under the said section twenty-seven in respect of meat from stock slaughtered at a meat-export slaughterhouse.