GOVERNMENT CIRCULAR No. 56/52. G.O. Reference No. F.C. 13/1/11. Supplies and Services The Canned Meat Products Order, 1952 HIS EXCELLENCY THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR has made the above-styled Order, a copy of which is appended, which replaces The Canned Meat and Canned Meat Products (Control and Maximum Prices) Order, 1950, as amended (a). The principal changes are: (1) The prices of most canned meat products are increased. (2) Canned rabbits and canned poultry are now freed from control. (3) From 14th September, 1952, the minimum meat content require- ments are extended to the majority of meat products. (4) From 14th September, 1952, price control is extended to include certain imported meat products, including pork in natural juice, jellied veal, jellied pork and continental or fancy sausages. The Order comes into force on the 16th March, 1952. Copies of the Order may be obtained from Government Office or may be seen at any Police Station on application to the Officer in Charge, at the Douglas Public Library, the Douglas Town Hall and the Offices of all the Town and Village Commissioners. By Order, J. N. PANES, Government Secretary. Government Office, Isle of Man. 15th March, 1952. (a) G.C. No. 100/50. G.C. No. 99/51. G.C. No. 120/51. Wt. P.5813.-120/4/52.—Printed (by Authority) by Brown & Sons Ltd., Douglas. ISLE OF MAN TO WIT By His Excellency Air Vice-Marshal SIR GEOFFREY RHODES BROMET, K.B.E., C.B., D.S.O., Lieutenant Governor of the said Isle, etc., etc., etc. Supplies and Services The Canned Meat Products Order, 1952 I, the said Lieutenant Governor, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by Regulations 55, 55AA and 98 of the Defence (General) Regu- lations (Isle of Man), 1939, as having effect by virtue of the Supplies and Services (Transitional Powers) (Isle of Man) Order in Council, 1946, as extended by the Supplies and Services (Extended Purposes) (Isle of Man) Order in Council, 1948, DO hereby order as follows : - CITATION AND COMMENCEMENT 1. This Order may be cited as The Canned Meat Products Order. 1952; and shall come into operation on the 16th day of March, 1952. INTERPRETATION 2. In this Order— "Beef sausages" means sausages which are ordinarily known and sold as beef sausages and the casings of which are hog or sheep casings, and includes sausages the meat in which is not beef alone. "Beef sausage meat" means sausage meat which is ordinarily known and sold as beef sausage meat and includes sausage meat the meat in which is not beef alone. "Buy" includes offer or agree to buy, and "sell" includes offer or agree to sell or expose for sale. "Canned" means packed in a tin, jar or other airtight container by any means involving the application of heat whether before, during or after packing in the container; provided that any reference to a canned meat product shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be deemed to refer also to that meat product after removal from the original container. "Catering business" includes the business or undertaking of an inn, public house, hotel, restaurant, buffet, coffee stall, or of any place of refreshment open to the public, or of any club, boarding house, refresh ment contractor or canteen, and the expression "caterer" shall be con- strued accordingly. "Cooked" means subjected to a process of cooking throughout the whole substance so as to render unnecessary any further cooking before being used for human consumption. "Home produced" means manufactdred in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man. "Imported" means imported into the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man. "Kosher" means consisting of, or, as the case may be, prepared or manufactured, as respects the meat therein from, meat obtained from animals slaughtered in accordance with the Jewish practice of slaughter; provided that where any meat product is sold or offered for sale in an airtight container it shall be deemed not to be kosher unless the word "Kosher" is clearly indicated on a label affixed to the container. "Meat" means bacon, ham, beef, mutton, lamb, veal, pork, and edible offals, whether raw, cooked, smoked or otherwise processed or prepared. 3 "Meat content" means the percentage of the weight of all meat when raw contained in any quantity of a meat product relative to the total weight of that quantity; provided that, for the purposes of this definition, the weight of any cooked meat product shall be the weight of the product when cooked. "Meat product" means any food, other than soup, used, manufactured or prepared for human consumption which is manufactured or prepared from meat and another ingredient or other ingredients, and includes meat which has been both pressed and cooked; Provided that the use of fat of any meat in the manufacture or pre- paration of any vegetable or fish product shall not be deemed to make that product a meat product. "Milk powder" means skim milk powder. "Pork sausages" means sausages which are ordinarily known and sold as pork sausages, and the casings of which are hog or sheep casings. "Public analyst" has the meaning assigned to it by the Adulteration Act, 1925. "Sale by retail" means any sale to a person buying otherwise than for the purpose of resale, and includes any sale to a person for the purposes of his catering business, and the expression "retailer" shall be construed accordingly. "Sale by wholesale" means any sale other than a first-hand sale or a sale by retail, and includes a sale by a first-hand distributor direct to a retailer, and the expression "wholesaler" shall be construed accordingly. "Sausage" means any meat product filled into a natural or artificial casing not being a loose wrapper or container. "Specified food" means in relation to canned meat products any article of food specified in the First and Second Schedules to this Order. "Substance" includes a liquid. "Tongue" means, except where otherwise specified, ox, calf, pig, sheep and lamb tongues. MEAT CONTENT OF SPECIFIED FOOD 3. A person shall not by way of trade prepare or manufacture or sell or have in his possession for sale any description of specified food the meat content of which is less than the minimum meat content prescribed in respect of such specified food— (1) up to and including the 13th day of September, 1952, in Column 2 of the First Schedule hereto; (2) on and after the 14th day of September, 1952, in Column 2 of the Second Schedule hereto. MAXIMUM PRICES 4. A person shall not sell or buy any specified food except in accord- ance with the prices applicable in respect of such specified food— (1) up to and including the 13th day of September, 1952, as set out in the First Schedule hereto; (2) on and after the 14th day of September, 1952, as set out in the Second Schedule hereto. Statement of Net Weight. 5. (1) The net weight of any canned meat product stated upon the container thereof, or upon the label or wrapper of that container, shall, for the purposes of this Order, be deemed to be the net weight of the contents of the container: Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to any such meat product sold otherwise than in the original container. (2) A person shall not, with intent to deceive, remove, alter or render illegible any statement of net weight appearing on the container of 4 any canned meat product or upon the label or wrapper of that container. Farthings. 6. In calculating the maximum price of any specified food on a sale by retail any fraction of a farthing shall be regarded as one farthing. CATERERS 7. This Order shall not apply to any sale by a caterer in the course of his catering business or any article of food served by him as a meal or part of a meal. RECORDS AND INVOICES 8. (1) Every person who carries on any undertaking by way of trade or business in the course of which he sells by wholesale any specified food, shall keep or cause to be kept an accurate record of all sales and purchases by him of any such article of food, that record to include in respect of each purchase or sale the name and address of the person from whom the specified food was purchased or to whom it was sold, parti- culars of the quantity and description, thereof purchased or sold, of the price paid or charged, and of each and every addition made to the maximum price. (2) Every person who carries on any undertaking by way of trade or business in the course of which he sells by retail any specified food shall keep or cause to be kept an accurate record of all purchases by him of any such articles of food, that record to include in respect of each purchase the name and address of the person from whom the specified focid was purchased, and particulars of the quantity and description thereof, of the price paid or charged, and of each and every addition to the maximum price. (3) Retention by any person of an invoice or of a copy of an invoice shall, as respects the particulars mentioned in, that document, be a sufficient compliance by that person with the provisions of this Article. (4) Every person who is required by this Article to keep any record shall retain it for a period of not less than one year from the date of the transaction to which it relates, or in the case of a record of stocks, from the date to which the record relates.