Act to regularize and provide for the development of local slaughterhouses (R-19.1).

The Act contains provisions aimed at regulating local slaughterhouses. A local slaughterhouse is a slaughterhouse and a plant where meat or meat products are prepared for the exclusive purpose of retail sale in that plant, or a slaughterhouse where slaughter services are provided for remuneration and, if applicable, a plant where meat or meat products may be prepared for remuneration for the personal consumption of a customer to whom slaughter services have been provided. .
Chapter I concerns transitional slaughterhouse permits; the Chapter requires every person who, between 14 June 1977 and 12 March 2009, operated a slaughterhouse, to obtain a permit. The Chapter regulates the slaughterhouse layout, equipment and machinery to be used, among others.
Chapter III introduces transitional provisions applicable to local slaughterhouses; it regulates the conditions to obtain and renew a local slaughterhouse permit issued under subparagraph a.1 of the first paragraph of section 9 of the Food Products Act (chapter P-29). Chapter IV penal provisions