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G.N. 602/47.
G.N. 739/41.
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Public Health (Food).
No building or part of a building shall be used as a food factory unless licensed by the Council. Such licence shall be renewable annually on 1st October. The annual licence fee shall be $120.00. If a licence is issued on or after 1st April in any year, half fee shall be payable.
3. Every keeper of a food factory shall cause the floor thereof to be thoroughly washed and cleansed at least once every day.
4. Every keeper of a food factory shall cause the whole of the inside walls thereof to be properly scraped and whitewashed at least once a quarter and also at all other times when he may be required to do so by notice in writing from the Council. Ceilings shall be rendered and kept dust proof.
5. Every keeper of a food factory shall cause every table and implement used in the preparation of food and every table, shelf or other article used to hold or contain food to be thoroughly washed and cleansed once at least in every day.
6. Every food factory shall have an ample supply of good potable water, and, except with the special permission of the Council, the water shall be laid on the premises from the public water mains.
7. Except with the permission in writing of the Council no unsalted flesh meat shall be brought into the premises of a food factory or used or consumed therein 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 the Council may from time to time approve.
8. Every keeper of a food factory shall cause every means of ventilation in connexion therewith to be kept in good order and efficient action.
9. 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.
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