Wholesome Meat and Fish (Fees) (Amendment) Rules 2000

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 01 Mar 2000

No. S 102

Wholesome Meat and Fish Act 1999

(Act 5 of 1999)

Wholesome Meat and Fish (Fees) (Amendment) Rules 2000

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 41 of the Wholesome Meat and Fish Act 1999, the Minister for National Development hereby makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules may be cited as the Wholesome Meat and Fish (Fees) (Amendment) Rules 2000 and shall come into operation on 3rd March 2000.

Deletion and substitution of Schedule

2. The Schedule to the Wholesome Meat and Fish (Fees) Rules 1999 (G.N. No. S553/99) is deleted and the following Schedule substituted therefor:

“THE SCHEDULE

Part I

Fees for Licences and Permits under Part Ii of Act

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Description of licence or permit

Provision under which licence or permit is issued

Fee payable

1. Licence to import, export or tranship meat products or fish products

Section 7 of the Act

$84 per annum

2. Permit to import frozen, chilled or processed meat products

Section 7 of the Act

$4.20 per 100 kg or part thereof

3. Permit to import canned meat products or meat products in retort pouches or jars

Section 7 of the Act

$77 per permit

4. Permit to export meat products

Section 7 of the Act

$3 per permit

5. Permit to tranship meat products

Section 7 of the Act

$18 per permit

6. Permit to import, export or tranship fish products

Section 7 of the Act

$3 per permit.

Part II

Fees for Licences and Permits under Part Iii of Act

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Description of licence or permit

Provision under which licence or permit is issued

Fee payable

1. Licence to operate a slaughter-house for poultry

Section 13 of the Act

$840 per annum

2. Licence to operate a new slaughter-house for livestock

Section 13 of the Act

$4,000 per annum

3. Renewal of a licence to operate a slaughter-house for livestock

Section 13 of the Act

$1,575 per annum

4. Licence to operate a slaughter-house for reptiles and amphibians

Section 13 of the Act

$231 per annum

5. Permit to slaughter sheep, goats or pigs other than at a licensed slaughter-house

Section 13 of the Act

$25 per permit plus a fee of $6 per animal slaughtered

6. Licence to operate a meat or fish processing establishment where meat products or fish products in containers are hermetically sealed and thereafter preserved by subjection to heat treatment

Section 13 of the Act

$840 per annum

7. Licence to operate a meat or fish processing establishment other than of a type referred to in item 6

Section 13 of the Act

$231 per annum

8. Licence to operate a cold store

Section 13 of the Act

$231 per annum.

Part III

Fees for Licences under Part Ii of Act and for Auctioneer’s Badges

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Description of licence or permit

Provision under which licence or badge is issued

Fee payable

1. Licence to operate a wholesale market for animals, meat products, fish or fish products

Section 13 of the Act read with section 22(4) of the Act thereof

$3,600 per annum

2. An auctioneer’s badge to auction animals, meat products, fish or fish products in a wholesale market

Rule 8 of the Wholesome Meat and Fish (Wholesale Market) Rules 1999 (G.N. No. S 558/99)

$40 per annum.

Part IV

Fees for Export Health Certificates

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Description of licence or permit

Provision under which licence or permit is issued

Fee payable

1. Health certificate for export of beef jerky

Rule 8 of the Wholesome Meat and Fish (Import, Export and Transhipment) Rules 1999
(G.N. No. S 554/99)

$2 per certificate

2. Health certificate for export of meat products or fish products

Rule 8 of the Wholesome Meat and Fish (Import, Export and Transhipment) Rules 1999
(G.N. No. S 554/99)

$20 per certificate.

Part V

Fees for Inspection of Meat Products and Fish Products

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1. For the inspection by a veterinary public health officer of any meat product, fish product or premises at the request of the owner thereof:

(a) professional service fee

(i) $63 per hour or part thereof

(ii) $133 per hour or part thereof (outside office hours or on an urgent basis)

(b) technical service fee

(i) $38 per hour or part thereof

(ii) $80 per hour or part thereof (outside office hours or on an urgent basis)

2. For the inspection by a veterinary public health officer of pigs, sheep, goats or cattle or the carcasses thereof at a licensed slaughter-house

$1.15 per animal.

Part VI

Fees for Examination, Analysis or Test of Meat Products or Fish Products Carried Out by A Veterinary Public Health Officer At the Request of the Owner of the Products

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Description of examination, analysis or test

Fee payable

1. Bacteriological tests comprising total plate count, E coli or Coliform count, Staph. Aureus count, detection of Salmonella, Shigella and Vibrio cholera

$116 per sample

2. Enumeration of indicator micro-organisms

$30 per test

3. Test for food pathogens

$42 per test

4. Test for anaerobic bacteria

$53 per test

5. Commercial sterility test

$12 per test

6. Laboratory analysis:

(a) general chemical, physical and nutrients

$34 per test

(b) moisture or ash

$18 per test

$26 per test

(d) pH

$10 per test

(e) mercury

$41 per test

(f) chemical test for freshness indicators or colouring matter or preservatives or vitamin C or anti-microbial residues by HPLC method

$60 per analysis

(g) heavy metals

$60 per test

(h) aflatoxin

$95 per analysis

(i) amino acids:

(i) for one amino acid

$168 per analysis

(ii) for 2 to 17 amino acids

$315 per analysis

(j) vitamin A

$97 per analysis

(k) cholesterol

$110 per analysis

(l) fatty acids

$231 per analysis

7. Radioactive atomic fallouts

$55 per test

8. Pesticide residue analysis

$123 per group of pesticides and an additional $80 for every pesticide detected other than dithiocarbamate as total CS₂ per sample

9. Species identification of meat products or fish products by isoelectric focusing electrophoresis

$273 per 10 samples or part thereof

10. Testing of Beta-Agonist drug residues by Enzyme Immuno-Assay (EIA) Screening

$27 per test

11. Testing of Beta-Agonist drug residues by using Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometric Detector (GC-MSD)

$140 per test

12. Testing of anti-microbial drug residues by Enzyme Immuno-Assay (EIA) or Microbial Inhibition Assay (MIA)

$37 per test

13. Examination of parasites in food samples

$41 per test

14. Testing of Staphylococcal Enterotoxin in food by Enzyme Immuno-Assay (EIA) Screening

$165 per 5 samples or part thereof

15. Toxin detection using laboratory animals

$190 per test.

Part VII

Miscellaneous

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Description of matter in respect of which fee is payable

Fee payable

For a certified true copy of any licence, permit, certificate or other document issued by the Director under the Act or any of the rules, or for the endorsement or certification by the Director of any document used in connection with the export of meat products or fish products

$8.50.”.

Made this 1st day of March 2000.

LAM CHUAN LEONG

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of National Development,
Singapore.

[ND 202/1-41 Vol. 22; AG/LEG/SL/349A/99/1 Vol. 1]

(To be presented to Parliament under section 41(4) of the Wholesome Meat and Fish Act 1999).

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