Plumtree Town (Game Meat By-laws) 2025

These by-laws control the sale of game meat in the Plumtree Town area. "Game animal" covers elephant, hippopotamus, zebra, ostrich and all cloven-hoofed animals but not domestic livestock, and "game meat" excludes cooked meat, sterilised meat in sealed containers, biltong and rendered by-products.

Game meat may only be sold, or brought in for sale, if supplied by a game rancher registered with the council. Registration requires the Officer of Health to approve the premises and facilities used for handling and dressing the meat, and a current game cropping and sale permit from the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority. Vehicles must be built to prevent contamination and kept clean.

Game meat brought in from outside must be notified, produced for inspection at the time and place specified, and — under these by-laws — inspected on payment of the prescribed fee. Sound meat is marked with an indelible stamp; unsound or diseased meat may be seized and destroyed against a certificate.

As published, every fee and penalty is printed as US$0,00: game rancher registration, the game meat licence, inspection fees, and the penalties for selling without council approval, unsafe transport, selling uninspected meat and obstructing an official. An unpaid liability after 90 days remains a further offence carrying up to level 3 or two years' imprisonment, which is the real sanction in the instrument as it stands.