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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 28, 1941.
19. Every licensee shall provide himself with a sufficient number of portable dust-bins of a pattern approved by the Health Officer. Every licensee shall cause all dust, garbage and solid refuse of any kind which may be produced or may accumulate in the course of his business or in the cleaning of poultry or fish to be immediately placed in a portable dust-bin, and he shall, as often as may be necessary, but never less than once a day, cause such dust-bins to be removed and emptied.
20.--(1) Every food shop shall have an ample supply of good potable water to the satisfaction of the Health Officer.
(2) All goods sold in any food shop shall be covered in a clean wrapper.
21. The licensee shall cause to be continuously displayed, in a conspicuous position on every floor of his licensed premises, a notice or notices of a size and form approved by the Proper Authority, and in a language prescribed by the Proper Authority, requiring all persons present on the premises not to spit: Provided that the Proper Authority may, in its discretion, exempt in writing, premises from the above requirement as to display of notice, and revoke in writing any such exemption.
22. The licensee shall normally be in attendance at his place of business and shall not absent himself for more than one calendar month without previously notifying the Proper Authority.
23. (1) Every dealer in fresh meat shall thoroughly wash and cleanse his shop and all fittings and utensils belong- ing thereto at least twice a day.
(2) Every fishmonger shall thoroughly wash and cleanse. his shop and all fittings and utensils belonging thereto at least twice a day.
24. Except with the permission of the Proper Authority no unsalted flesh meat shall be sold from any food shop other than that which has been slaughtered in the Government Slaughter Houses or which has been imported from Canada, Australia or New Zealand or from such other localities as may be approved from time to time.
25. Every poulterer shall thoroughly cleanse his shop, pens and all fittings belonging thereto at least twice a day and shall provide a supply of fresh drinking water for any live birds that may be kept in such pens. Every pen shall be fitted with a tray to catch droppings.
26. Where any part of a floor to which the licence relates is used for sleeping purposes, such part shall be partitioned off from the remainder of the floor to the satis- faction of the Proper Authority; and no part of the trade shall be carried on and no storage of food or utensils shall be permitted in the part so partitioned off for sleeping purposes.
27. One or more copies of the foregoing Food Shop rules, in English and Chinese, shall be posted up in a con- spicuous place in the premises, provided that the Proper Authority may exempt any premises from this requirement.
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