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Inter- pretation.

2. In these rules-

"bake-house" means any premises on which bread, biscuits, or confectionery is baked or prepared for baking; undi includes any premises on which the materials for the preparation of such food are stored;

"cement concrete" means cement concrete composed of one part of cement, three parts of sand, and five parts of stom broken to pass through a one inch ring;

"'dairy" means any premises in which milk is produced and supplied; or any premises in which milk is kept or used for manufacture into butter, cheese, dried milk, or condensed milk, and includes any place where the vessels used in the trade are kept; but does not include any milk shop from which milk is supplied for sale for consumption off the premises in properly closed and unopened receptacles in which it was delivered to the milk shop, or any premises in which milk is sold for consumption on the premises;

"dairyman" includes any keeper of cows, buffaloes or goals for the purpose of trade in milk, any purveyor of milk.. any occupier of a dairy, or any occupier of a milk shop, and in cases where a dairy or milk shop is owned by a corporation or company includes the secretary or other person actually managing such dairy or milk shop;

**disease**

means any disease of an infectious of contagious nature, and includes in the case of cattle any diseas of the udder which is liable to cause any contamination of the milk:

"food" means any article used as food or drink for human consumption, other than drugs or water, and includes-

(a) any substance which is intended for use in the

composition or preparation of food;

(b) any flavouring matter or condiment; and

(c) any colouring matter intended for use in food: Provided that, notwithstanding anything in this definition, the addition of any colouring or flavouring mutter or condiment to al article used as food or drink shall be deemed to be the addition of substance to food;

"'food factory" means a place other than a restaurant. where food is prepared for sale and includes bake-houses, aerated water factories and any business, undertaking or concern which

curries on the trade of food preserving, or any of the branches of such trade, such as the making of sugar confectionery, cocoa, chocolate, jam, marmalade, preserved fruits, Chinese preserves, Truit and table jellies, meat extracts, meat essences, sauces and pickles, the preparation of meat, poultry, game, fish, vegetables and fruit for sale in a preserved state and the processes of wrap- ping and filling, and packing other than the packing of the finished article in cases or crates merely for storage or transport;

"fond officer' means any person appointed by the District Commissioner on the recommendation of the Director of Medical Services for the purpose of these rules;

"food shop" means any place, other than a market, wherein articles of food for man usually sold or exposed for sale in a market, are ware-housed or stored or exposed for sale or Kold:

"hawker" means any person who trades in any street whether the same is the property of the Crown or otherwise, or public thoroughfare, or goes from place to place selling or exposing for sale any goods, wares, or merchandise immediately to be delivered, or exposing samples or patterns of any goods, wates, or merchandise to be afterwards delivered, or selling or offering for sale his skill in handicraft, but does not include a person selling or seeking orders for goods, wares, or merchandise to and from persons who are dealers therein and who buy to sell again;

"health officer" includes the Director of Medical Services, any medical officer appointed as a health officer by the Governor, any veterinary officer, and any officer for the time being performing the duties of a health officer;

"licence" means a valid licence of the appropriate class issued to an applicant by the District Commissioner;

"market" means any Government or private market which has been declared a market by the Governor in Council of may hereafter be declared a market by the Governor in Council under section 6 of the New Territories Regulation Ordinance,

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**market arca" means the area which has been declared by the Governor in Council to be the area to be served by any market or may hereafter be declared to be the area to be served by any market under section 6 of the New Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910;