Sale of
shell fish.
Uncut fruit.
Inoculation against Cholera.
8. No person shall sell or offer or expose for sale any shell fish collected or otherwise obtained from the harbour of Hong Kong or from the harbour of Aberdeen or from Kwai Chung Bay, For the purpose of this by-law "Shell-fish" includes mussels, shrimps, prawns, lobsters and all other kinds of molluscs and crustaceans.
For the purpose of this by-law :-
i. "Harbour of Hong Kong" means the Harbour of Victoria and includes the waters of the Colony within the follow ing boundaries :
On the east-1 straight line drawn from the westernmost extremity of Siu Chau Wan Point to the westernmost extremity of Ah Kung Ngam Point (some- times known as Kung Am),
On the west-A straight line drawn from the westernmost point of the Island of Hong Kong to the westernmost point of Green Island, thence a straight libe drawn from the westernmost point of Green Island to the westernmost point of Stonecutters Island, and thence a straight line drawn true north from the westernmost extremity of Stonecutters Island to the mainland.
ii. "Harbour of Aberdeen" means the whole of Aberdeen Bay within the boundaries represented by a straight line drawn northward from the westernmost point of Aplichau Island and the foreshores of Aberdeen Bay up to and including bigh water mark at spring tide.
and iii.
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Kwai Chung Bay" means the area be unded on the west by a line drawn three hundred and thirty-six degrees from the western extremity of Stonecutt rs Island through Pillar Island to the eastern shore of Capsinun Pass and on the east by the mainland and the harbour.
fresh No person shall sell or offer or expose for sale any fruit unless the same is whole, that is to say, uncut and unpeeled; provided that this by-law shall not apply in the case of peeled pumeloes if the inner skin is unbroken.
any
8. No person shall engage or be engaged in business or trade wherein food, including milk products intended for con- sumption, either without cooking or without further cooking, is procured, prepared, handled, distributed or sold by such person unless proof of recent inoculation against cholera, to the satisfar- tion of a Health Officer, can be shown.
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This by-law, however, shall not apply to persons engaged in the procuring, handling or sale of cooked foods, including milk products, if contained in the manufacturers original unbroken
sealed containers.
For the purpose of this by-law "Milk products" includes "ice-cream" or any chilled or frozen preparation commonly known as ice-cream.
6. Any officer of the Sanitary Department or any police Authority officer may seize any food which is or appears to be held in con- to destroy. travention of these by-laws and, if ordered so to do in writing by the Chairman of the Urban Council, may destroy it or so dispose of it as to prevent it being used as food for man; provided that, any person claiming anything seized under these by-laws may within 24 hours after such seizure, complain to a Magistrate who may either confirm or disallow such seizure wholly or in part, and may order to be paid by way of compensation such sum of money not exccoding the market value of the food seized as he may consider reasonable.
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માંક
Made by the Urban Council Mis 27th day of September, 1949.
B. M. WHITLEY,
Secretury.
Approved by the Legislative Council this roth day of October,
Alurtin
Deputy Clerk of Councils.