Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

MEAT INDUSTRIES ACT - SECT 5

This Act does not apply to or in relation to the slaughter, storage or processing of an animal, including its carcass or its meat or other product, where the animal is:

        (a)     slaughtered by a person, on land owned or occupied by the person, for consumption of its meat, principally on that land, by:

            (i)     the person;

            (ii)     other persons who reside with the person;

            (iii)     the person's employees or non-paying guests; or

            (iv)     paying guests, where they are aware that the animal was slaughtered on the property and where they are not guests at a shop, roadhouse or other similar premises; or

        (b)     slaughtered by a drover for consumption of its meat principally by:

            (i)     the drover;

            (ii)     members of the drover's family accompanying the drover; or

            (iii)     the drover's employees engaged on the drive or the drover's guests,

if the person or drover does not sell the carcass, meat or another product of the animal (other than its hide or horns) other than to an employee, whether as part of the employee's contract of employment or otherwise.