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PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE, 1966.
(No. 30 of 1960),
LAUNDRIES BY-LAWS. 1961.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 40 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, the Urban Council hay made the following by-laws--
1. These by-laws may be cited as the Laundries By-laws, 1961.
These by-laws apply to the urban areas only.
Citation.
Application.
Interpreta tion.
2.
ProhibitionL
of unlicensi
Jaundries.
Application
for licence.
Conditions
3. In these by-laws, save where the context otherwise requites- “Council" means the Urban Council;
"laundry" means a public laundry, but does not include a laundry operated by a school, or a hospital or a home for the reception of aged or disabled persons, for the purposes of such school, hospinl or home or for the convenience of the iamates or staff thereof; "hospital" means any premises for the reception and treatment of persons suffering from illness or mental defectiveness. any maternity home and any institution for the reception and treatment of persons during convalescence or of persons requiring mental rehabilitation.
4. Save under and in accordance with a licence granted by the Council, no person shall open or maintain a laundry.
5. (1) Every application for any such licence shall be made in writing, addressed to the Secretary of the Council, and accompanied by three copies of a plan, as nearly as may be to scale, of the whole of u: premises comprising the laundry.
(2) Every plan, or any modification thereof, which is approved by the Council shall be endorsed to that effect by the Secretary of the Council, and one copy shall be returned to the applicant and the remaio- ing two copies shall be retained by the Council.
6. No such licence shall be granted unless the Council is satisfied for grant of in relation to the premises in respect of which the application for sodi
licence was made that-
licence.
(a) the plan referred to in by-law 5 has been approved by the
Council and the premises conform thereto;
(b) the means of ventilation which is provided, whether natural
mechanical or partly natural and partly mechanical, is sufficien in every part of the premises to safeguard the health in tha respect of all persons resorting to or working in the premises
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(c) the means of lighting which is provided is adequate in every
part of the premises;
(c) the floor surfaces of every part of the premises are impervious to liquid and constructed of smooth surfaced non-absorbent material;
(e) the source of the supply of water to the premises is suitable: (f) the drainage provided for the premises is adequate, and
(g) satisfactory means are provided to prevent the contamination of laundered articles by contact with unlaundered articles,
7. After the grant or renewal of any such licence, no licensee Restriction shall, save with the permission in writing of the Council, cause or on alteratioD
of premisesS permit to be made in respect of the premises to which the licence after grant retales-
of licence.
(a) any alteration or addition which would result in a material deviation from the plan thereof approved under by-law 5; or
(b) any alteration in respect of any matter specified in by-law 6.
8. Every licensee of a laundry shall, at all times, cause every Laundries part of the premises at which he maintains the laundry, and all fittings and laundry and equipment used therein, to be maintained in a proper state of repair and in a clean and wholesome condition.
9. (1) Save as provided in paragraph (2), no person shall use,
or permit to be used, for dwelling purposes any part of a laundry.
equipment to be kept in good repair, etc. Laundries
not to be used for
(2) Not more than two caretakers may dwell in a laundry in a dwelling part thereof set aside solely for the purpose.
purposes.
10. (1) No person shall prepare or cook any food for buman Restriction consumption in any part of a laundry in which any operation of an cooking laundering is carried on.
(2) No person shall prepare or cook any food for human consump- don in any other part of a laundry, except in a properly constructed kitchen.
in laundries.
11. No person shall keep or permit to be kept in any laundry any Prohibition animal or any poultry.
12. (1) No person suffering from a discharging wound or from any infectious cutaneous disease shall take any part in the laundering or handling of any articles in any laundry:
Provided that a health officer may issue a certificate in writing to any such person exempting him from the provisions of this paragraph in
of the keeping of animal or poultry.
Restriction on employ-
ment of persons likely to spread discos.