Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsIn this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
"cattle" means bovine animals other than buffaloes.
"edible offal" means any edible portion, other than the flesh, of cattle, calves, sheep, lambs, goats or other animals prescribed for the purposes of the definition of meat .
"industry" means the meat and live - stock industry.
"live-stock" means cattle, calves, sheep, lambs, goats or other animals prescribed for the purposes of this definition .
"meat" means the fresh or preserved flesh of cattle, calves, sheep, lambs, goats or other animals prescribed for the purposes of this definition, and includes meat products, meat by - products and edible offal, but does not include meat of a kind declared by the regulations to be, for the purposes of this Act, unfit for human consumption.
"meat by-product" includes skin, hide, tallow, meat meal and inedible offal.
"meat product" means food prepared from or containing meat, and includes canned meat.
"Secretary" means the Secretary of the Department.