Chapter 29:15 URBAN COUNCILS ACT (6) The prevention of the straying or wandering of animals or reptiles. Disease-carrying animals, insects and vermin 83. (1) The destruction or extermination of disease-carrying animals, inserts and vermin. (2) The prevention of the keeping or breeding of rats and other vermin known to harbour or convey or infect with or cause any disease. Noxious insects 84. (1) The destruction or extermination of locusts, mosquitoes, flies and other noxious insects. (2) The prevention or abatement of conditions permitting or favouring the breeding of insects referred to in subparagraph (1). (3) The supply by the council of poison and appliances for any purposes referred to in subparagraphs (1) and (2). Public riding stables and kennels 85. (1) The regulation and licensing of public riding stables and kennels. (2) The standards and minimum requirements for the construction, maintenance, conduct, good order, cleanliness, lighting and ventilation of premises used in connection with public riding stables or kennels, and the provision and maintenance of fittings or apparatus used in connection therewith. Dog tax 86. The imposition of a tax on dogs of the age of six months or more. Slaughter of animals and slaughter-houses 87. (1) The prohibition or regulation of the slaughtering of animals, the establishment, locality, supervision, administration, operation and maintenance of slaughter-houses and the disposal of the waste products from slaughter-houses. (2) Requiring and regulating the use of public slaughter-houses and stock-fairs established in connection therewith. (3) Requiring and regulating the use of weighbridges at slaughter-houses. Dipping tanks 88. The regulation of the use of dipping tanks. Stock pens 89. The regulation of the use of stock pens and the prohibition, regulation or licensing of the use of private stock pens. PART XI FOOD, FOOD PREMISES OR VEHICLES AND MARKETS Sale and supply of food 90. (1) The regulation of the sale, preparation, manufacture, keeping, storing, depositing, conveying, handling and exposure for sale of food, including pet food. (2) The prevention of the sale, preparation, manufacture, keeping, storing, depositing, conveying or exposure for sale of food that is, in the opinion of the medical officer of health or a health inspector, adulterated, unwholesome or diseased. (3) The prohibition of the sale or supply of fresh meat obtained from cattle or other domestic livestock unless such cattle or other livestock have been slaughtered at a slaughter-house established or approved by the council. (4) The prohibition of the supply to persons within the council area of— (a) meat of any description, including fish, pet food, game meat and poultry meat, which has not been inspected; or (b) any carcass of or meat or viscera from horses, mules or donkeys slaughtered outside the council area. 154