Present: De Sampayo J.       1919

ABEYESEKERE v. MOHAMADO.

256-M. C. Colombo, 658.

Mutton   offal-Meat-Municipal  Councils Ordinance, s. 202-Butchers Ordinance.

" Meat " in the Batchers Ordinance includes offal.

Where an accused had the batcher's license to sell meat (mutton only, excluding offal), as well as another under the Batchers Ordi­nance, from the Chairman, Municipal Council, and he was charged with selling offal-

Held, he had the permission of the Chairman to sell offal.

THE  accused was charged with having sold or exposed for sale " mutton offal " in the Edinburgh market without the permission of the Chairman of the Municipal Council, in breach of section 202 of the Municipal Councils Ordinance, No. 6 of 1910. At this time the accused had two licenses: one from the Chairman for a certain stall at Edinburgh market authorizing him to sell "meat (mutton only, excluding offal)," and the other under the Butchers Ordinance, No. 9 of 1893. The latter authorized him to slaughter animals and to carry on the trade of a butcher at this stall. The Magistrate acquitted the accused, holding that " meat " included " offal."

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