I beg to move amendment No. 13 :—
Before sub-section (3) to insert a new sub-section as follows :—
(3) Where—
(a) premises are used exclusively for the business of slaughtering pigs ; and
(b) other premises situate within one mile from such first-mentioned premises are used for the manufacture of bacon from the carcases of pigs slaughtered at such first-mentioned premises ;
both such premises shall be deemed for the purposes of the immediately preceding sub-section to be one set of premises.
There are cases that I have come across where the curing premises are separated from the slaughtering premises and, as the Bill stands, I am afraid it would be impossible to licence them. This amendment is put in to remedy the position. Right through this Bill there is a principle that from the time a carcase arrives it cannot leave the premises unless as bacon. This is to legalise the existence of a factory of that kind as being the one set of premises. There is at least one case that I have in mind and it would have to be covered in this way.