Section 1
SECTION 1. For the purpose of facilitating the marketing of livestock and of accelerating the industrialization of animal products in the Philippines, there is created in the Bureau of Animal Industry a unit to be known as the "Animal Utilization Service," the functions and duties of which shall be to establish, equip, maintain, and operate modern slaughterhouses in Pandacan. Manila, and other convenient places in the Philippines, where animals belonging either to the Government or to private parties may be slaughtered; to establish, equip, maintain, and operate in connection with said slaughterhouses refrigeration plants where carcasses of animals may be chilled and stored, tanneries for tanning hides and skins of the animals slaughtered in said slaughterhouses, and rendering plants for the utilization of condemned carcasses and animal waste products; and to receive consignments of livestock and handle the sale of the same or of the meat and other products upon their slaughter, under such regulations as may be issued by the Director of Animal Industry with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce.