§ Mr. Hannahasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food whether a man, keeping his own pigs, or boarding those belonging to a neighbour, will be permitted to have them slaughtered by the proper officer and then cure the bacon at home; and whether the owner of the boarded pigs may do the same?
Major Lloyd GeorgeFood executive officers are authorised to grant licences to a pig owner authorising him to slaughter and cure, for consumption in his own household, pigs which are his property, and which he has fed on his own premises for not less than two months. A pig keeper may not be granted a licence to slaughter pigs which he is "boarding'' for someone else. The maximum number of pigs which may be slaughtered by an individual producer is two in a year. "His own premises" are regarded as including premises owned or rented or otherwise in the pig owner's possession or control, but not land used for agisting stock. The carcases of pigs slaughtered by an individual pig owner under licence may be cured on the licensee's own premises, or at a Class A bacon factory specified in the licence. A licence to slaughter may not be granted to an owner whose pigs are boarded with someone else. In cases where each of two persons occupying separate premises owns pigs, but all the pigs are kept on one set of premises and the owners share the work and cost of rearing them, licences may be granted to either owner or to both, provided the food executive officer is satisfied as to the bona fides of the arrangement.