1987 Ed.]
Food Business (Urban Council) By-laws
[CAP. 132
7A. (1) No person engaged in any food business shall place or store or cause or permit to be placed or stored on any food premises any colouring matter for use in food which is not a permitted colouring matter.
(2) In this by-law, "permitted colouring matter" means any colouring matter, or a combination of more than one thereof, specified in the First Schedule to the Colouring Matter in Food Regulations.
8. (1) No person shall use, or permit the use of, any food room for the purpose of a dwelling place.
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[Subsidiary]
Prohibition of non-permitted colouring matter on food premises. L.N. 292/72.
L.N. 387/87.
(Cap. 132, sub. leg.)
Prohibition of use of food rooms for dwelling purposes.
(2) No person shall use, or permit the use of, any dwelling place as a food room.
9. (1) No person shall spit in any food room, and no person shall spit in any other part of any food premises except into a spittoon or other receptacle provided for that purpose.
(2) Where the proprietor of any food business provides in any food premises spittoons or other receptacles, he shall cause each such spittoon or receptacle to contain disinfectant fluid and to be cleansed, and the fluid renewed, not less than once in every 24 hours.
(3) In the case of any food business in respect of which a licence is required under the provisions of Part IV, the proprietor thereof shall, unless exempted in writing by the Council, cause one or more notices, prohibiting spitting and written in English and Chinese, to be continuously displayed in a conspicuous manner in every food premises.
10. Every person engaged in any food business shall, while so engaged, take all such steps as may be reasonably necessary to protect the food from risk of contamination and deterioration, and, in particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, no person shall-
(a) so place, or cause, suffer or permit any other person so to place, any open food as to involve any risk of the contamination or deterioration thereof; or
(b) wrap up or otherwise bring any open food into direct contact with any printed newspaper or unclean paper or wrapping material.
11. (1) No person shall, in the course of any food business, store (including display for sale), or suffer or permit the storage of, any open food, other than uncooked perishable food, except in a suitable container so designed and constructed as to prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, the access of dust, insects or vermin:
Provided that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent such reasonable exposure of food as may be necessary in the course of carrying on the business.
Restriction on spitting.
Protection of food from risk of contamination.
Storage of open food.