AN140166 – Meat Industry (Other Than Export) Award - State 2002
1.5.1 The "Act" means the Industrial Relations Act 1999 as amended or replaced from time to time.
1.5.2 "Butcher's Shop" means any shop, tent, stall, vehicle or place other than abattoirs where uncooked meats (including the preparation thereof) are offered for sale, i.e., beef, mutton, pork, veal, and/or sausages:
Provided that any other business establishment may sell poultry, rabbits, hams, uncooked or salted pigs' cheeks and pigs' trotters, bacon, ham or pork bones, sausages, pork fillets, kidneys and tripe, and by so doing shall not be deemed to be a Butcher's Shop.
1.5.3 "Commission" means the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission.
1.5.4 "General Butcher" means an adult who has had at least 4 years' general experience in general butchering and is not exclusively employed in the making of smallgoods, or in such other cases where an employer engaged or calls upon an employee to perform tradesmen's functions of general butcher:
Provided that the reference to "an adult" shall not prevent a person who has successfully completed a relevant apprenticeship being classified as a General Butcher.
1.5.5 "Slaughtering" means and includes taking charge of slaughteryard, penning up, knocking down, pithing, sticking, bleeding, dressing, skinning, necking off, cutting down, handing back and washing.
1.5.6 "Union" means the Australasian Meat Industry Union of Employees (Queensland Branch)
