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[Subsidiary]
Personal cleanliness.
Immunization of persons engaged in food businesses against certain diseases.
L.N. 163/78.
L.N. 228/82.
L.N. 228/82.
Prohibition of employment in food businesses of persons not immunized against certain diseases.
L.N. 155/64.
L.N. 163/78.
L.N. 228/82.
CAP. 132] Food Business (Urban Council) By-laws
[1987 Ed.
22. Every person who engages in the handling of food in any food business shall while so engaged-
(a) keep as clean as may be reasonably practicable all parts of his person which may be liable to come into contact with food;
(b) keep as clean as may be reasonably practicable all parts of his clothing, overclothing or overalls which may be liable to come into contact with food:
(c) keep any open cut or abrasion on any exposed part of his person covered with a suitable waterproof dressing; and
(d) refrain from the use of tobacco while he is handling any open food or is in any food room.
23. (1) No person shall be engaged in or take any part in any food business unless he has been---
(a) [Deleted, L.N. 228/82]
(b) immunized, in accordance with such of the requirements of a notification under paragraph (3) as apply to him.
(2) Failure by any person engaged in or taking part in any such food business as may be specified by notification under paragraph (3), on demand to produce for inspection by any health inspector or health officer a valid certificate of immunization against such disease as may be so specified shall be prima facie evidence in any court of a contravention by such person of paragraph (1).
(3) The Council may from time to time by notification published in the Gazette require persons employed in or taking part in all or any specified food businesses to be immunized against such diseases as may be specified in such notification.
24. (1) No proprietor of any food business, or, as the case may be, of any such food business as may be specified by notification under by-law 23(3), shall employ any person in, or cause or permit any person to be engaged in or to take part in, such business unless that person-
(a) [Deleted, L.N. 163/78]
(b) [Deleted, L.N. 228/82]
(c) has been immunized in accordance with such of the requirements of a notification under by-law 23(3) as apply to that person.
(2) Failure by the proprietor of any such food business as may be so specified, on demand to obtain the production of, or to produce, for inspection by any health inspector or health officer a valid certificate of immunization against such disease as may be so specified, or a certified copy thereof, showing that any person
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