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6. Every keeper of a food factory shall cause every means of ven.ilation in connection therewith to be kept in good order and efficient action.

7. No keeper of a food factory shall cause or allow to be brought into, placed in or carried through such food factory any night-stool or other receptacle for urine or excreta.

8. No keeper of a food factory shall sit, stand or lie down upon any table or shelf in such food factory, nor shall he allow any other person to sit, stand or lie down upon any such table or shelf, nor shall he sleep or allow any other person to sleep within such food factory, except in accordance with the provisions of by-law 16.

9. No person suffering from any skin disease or infectious dis- order, or who has recently been in contact with a person so suffering, shall enter any food factory or take part in or assist in any way in the conduct of the trade carried on there.

10. No person shall commit a nuisance within the precincts of any food factory.

11. No keeper of a food factory shall keep or allow to be kept therein any animal or bird.

12. Every keeper of a food factory shall afford to any Food Officer free access to every part thereof for the purpose of inspection at all hours during the day time and also at all times during the night when work is going on in the food factory.

13. Whenever it appears to the Council that any house or building or part thereof used for the preparation, storage or sale of food is in such an insanitary condition as to be unfit for such use, the occupier or, in the case of unoccupied premises, the owner thereof shall whitewash, cleanse or purify the saine in such manner as may be required by the Council by notice in writing signed by the Secretary thereof.

14. No occupier of any house or building or part thereof which is used for the preparation, storage or sale of food shall keep or allow to be kept therein or adjacent thereto for more than 24 hours or otherwise than in some proper receptacle, any dirt, dung, bones, ashes, nightsoil, filth or any noxious or offensive matter, or shall suffer such receptacle to be in a filthy or noxious state or shall fail to employ proper means to remove the filth therefrom and to cleanse and purify the same.

15.-(a) No person shall spit in any food factory except into spittoons provided for the purpose.

(b) The registered proprietor of every food factory shall cause to be continuously displayed, in a conspicuous position on every floor of his registered premises, a notice or notices of a size and form approved by the Council, and in a language prescribed by the Council, requiring all persons present on the premises not to spit on the floor: Provided that the Council may, in its discretion, exempt in writing any premises from the above requirement as to display of notice, and revoke in writing any such exemption.

(c) The registered proprietor of every food factory shall cause any phlegm, spittle or saliva found on the floor of his premises to be promptly swept up and removed; and, in the event of his providing one or more spittoons, shall cause a sufficient quantity of a disinfectant fluid to be kept continuously in such spittoons while in use, and shall thoroughly cleanse them daily at the close of business.

16. Where in any food factory any part of a floor to which the licence relates is used for sleeping purposes, such part shall be parti- tioned off from the remainder of the floor to the satisfaction of the Council; and no part of the trade shall be carried on and no storage of raw materials or finished products shall be permitted in the part so partitioned off for sleeping purposes.

17. Every food factory shall be provided with adequate kitchen, ablution, urinal and latrine accommodation to the satisfaction of the Council.

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