abattoir means premises used for or in connection with the slaughtering of abattoir animals for human consumption and includes—
(a) buildings used in connection with slaughtering, handling, drafting or keeping abattoir animals for human consumption at premises used for those purposes, and
(b) holding yards and similar structures.
abattoir animal means the following animals if they are not game animals—
(a) an animal of the bovine, bubaline, camelidae, caprinae, cervidae, ovine, porcine or soliped species,
(b) a bird,
(c) a crocodile,
(d) a rabbit.
abattoir meat means meat—
(a) from an abattoir animal, and
(b) intended for human consumption.
animal means an abattoir animal, game animal or knackery animal.
animal food means food intended for consumption by animals.
animal food field depot means premises where the unflayed carcases of game animals intended for use as animal food are stored but not packaged, processed, treated, boned or cut up.
animal food field harvesting van means a vehicle in which unflayed carcases of game animals intended for use as animal food are conveyed from the point of harvest to an animal food field depot.
animal food processing plant—
(a) means premises where, in the operation of a business that prepares or sells animal food—
(i) meat or fish, or a product of meat or fish, is stored, packed, packaged, processed, treated, boned or cut up, or
(ii) processed animal food is produced, and
(b) does not include—
(i) an abattoir, knackery, meat processing plant, game meat primary processing plant or animal food field depot, or
(ii) meat retail premises or other retail premises.
animal food van means a vehicle used for the conveyance of meat intended for use as animal food, but does not include an animal food field harvesting van.
bird includes ratite.
game animal means a vertebrate animal, including a mammal, bird or reptile, but not including a fish, that—
(a) is not husbanded in the way of a farmed animal, and
(b) is of a species that may be legally harvested, and
(c) is slaughtered in a wild state.
game meat means meat—
(a) from a game animal, and
(b) intended for human consumption.
game meat field depot means premises where unflayed carcases of game animals intended for human consumption are stored but not packaged, processed, treated, boned or cut up.
game meat field harvesting van means a vehicle in which unflayed carcases of game animals intended for human consumption are conveyed from the point of harvest to a game meat field depot.
game meat primary processing plant means premises where, in the operation of a business, unflayed carcases of game animals are received from the field or a game meat field depot and are flayed, whether or not the carcases are further treated, boned or cut up on the premises.
hogget has the same meaning as in the sheepmeat processing language handbook, as in force from time to time.
knackery—
(a) means premises used for or in connection with—
(i) slaughtering knackery animals for use as animal food, or
(ii) the destruction of knackery animals for the making of animal by-products used in animal food, and
(b) includes—
(i) buildings used for or in connection with the slaughtering, destruction, handling, drafting or keeping of knackery animals at premises used for those purposes, and
(ii) holding yards and similar premises.
knackery animal means a bird, buffalo, bull, calf, camel, cow, deer, donkey, ewe, goat, heifer, hogget, horse, kangaroo, kid, lamb, ox, rabbit, ram, steer, swine or wether.
lamb has the same meaning as in the sheepmeat processing language handbook, as in force from time to time.
licensed premises means premises for which a licence authorising the carrying on of a meat business is in force.
meat means the whole or part of the carcase of an animal, but does not include—
(a) processed meat, or
(b) processed animal food.
meat business—see section 70.
meat processing plant—
(a) means premises where, in the operation of a business—
(i) abattoir meat is stored, packed, packaged, processed, treated, boned or cut up, or
(ii) processed meat is produced from abattoir meat or is further processed, or
(iii) game meat from carcases flayed at other premises is stored, packed, packaged, processed, treated, boned or cut up, or
(iv) processed meat is produced from game meat from carcases that have been flayed at other premises or is further processed, and
(b) does not include—
(i) an abattoir, or
(ii) a game meat field depot, or
(iii) a game meat primary processing plant, or
(iv) meat retail premises or other retail premises.
meat retail premises means premises where meat is sold by retail and on which raw meat carcases or parts of raw meat carcases are processed in some way, including by boning, slicing or cutting, or on which processed meat is produced or further processed, other than premises—
(a) where in any week during the preceding calendar year, more than 1t of meat, 1t of processed meat or 1t of a combination of meat or processed meat was sold by wholesale, or
(b) where all the meat sold is—
(i) in a form ready to be consumed, including meat sold at a restaurant or take-away food shop, or
(ii) in a form commonly referred to as cook and chill, that is, cooked packaged meat that requires reheating before consumption.
meat safety inspector means—
(a) for an abattoir—the meat safety inspector appointed for the abattoir in accordance with section 105, or
(b) for a game meat primary processing plant—the meat safety inspector appointed for the processing plant in accordance with section 105.
meat van means a vehicle used for the conveyance of abattoir meat or game meat, but does not include a game meat field harvesting van.
poultry means chickens, ducks, geese, guinea fowls, muttonbirds, pheasants, quails, squab (pigeons), turkeys or another avian species, except ratites.
poultry farm means land or premises where, at any time, 100 or more poultry are being grown for human consumption.
processed animal food means the product of a manufacturing process containing meat intended for use as animal food.
processed meat means a meat product intended for human consumption that contains not less than 300g per kilogram of meat, if the meat has undergone a method of processing other than boning, slicing, dicing, mincing or freezing, and includes cured or dried meat flesh in whole cuts or pieces.
rendering plant means premises where animal by-products are rendered or boiled down, but does not include an abattoir or a knackery.
sheepmeat processing language handbook means the Handbook of Australian Sheepmeat Processing: The AUS-MEAT language published by AUS-MEAT Limited, as in force from time to time.
unflayed carcase of an animal means the carcase of the animal with the skin or outer covering still attached.
(2) A reference in the meat food safety scheme to premises or a vehicle used for a purpose includes a reference to premises or a vehicle intended to be used for the purpose.
(3) For the meat food safety scheme, a reference to Australian Standard AS 4841–2006, Hygienic production of pet meat in the following documents is a reference to the document titled Standard for the Hygienic Production of Pet Meat: PISC Technical Report 88 – Amended 2009, published by CSIRO and as in force from time to time—
(a) Australian Standard AS 4465–2006, Construction of premises and hygienic production of poultry meat for human consumption,
(b) Australian Standard AS 4464–2007, Hygienic production of wild game meat for human consumption.