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Milk net to be processed or recon stiluted except by licence.

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PART 111.

PROCESSING AND RECONSTITUTING MTT.K.

13. Save under and in accordance with a licence granted by the Director and in such premises as shall be specified in such licence, no person shall for the purpose of sale process or reconstitute any milk or cause any milk to be processed or reconstituted:

Provided that this regulation shall not apply to milk that is processed or reconstituted on premises in relation to which a licence || (L.N. 63/63) has been granted by the Director under the provisions of the Food ||

Business (New Territories) Regulations, 1963, for consumption on such premises.

Application for licence.

Conditions

of grant of

licence.

14. (1) Every application for such a licence shall be made in writing addressed to the Director and shall be accompanied by this: copies of a plan, as nearly as may be to scale, of the whole of that par of any premises in which the applicant intends to carry on any operation, I involving the processing or reconstituting of milk, and such plan shall include particulars of the following-

(2) sanitary fitments and ablution facilities;

(b) built in clothing lockers or cloakrooms, passage ways or opa

spaces (if any);

(c) rooms or other spaces (if any) for the exclusive use of staff or

employees;

(d) all means of exit, entry and internal communication: (e) all windows or ducts providing ventilation or, where any

mechanical means of ventilation is provided, such means; the siting of all furniture and fittings of a substantial and permanent nature, including heat-treatment plant, cleansing refrigeration or cooling equipment, sterilization machinery a storage and bottling equipment, and any fixed sideboards. washbasins, sinks, water tanks or other like articles;

(g) means of refuse storage or disposal; and

()the drainage system, including all inlets into the system.

(2) Every copy of such plan, or any modification thereof, that is approved by the Director shall be endorsed to that effect, and one copy shall be returned to the applicant and the remaining two copies shall be retained by the Director.

15. No such licence shall be granted unless the Director is satisfied in relation to the premises in respect of which the application for the licence was made that--

(a) he has approved the plan referred to in regulation 14 and the

premises conform thereto;

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(b) the means of ventilation that is provided, whether natural or mechanical or partly natural and partly mechanical, is sufficient in every part of the premises, other than a part exclusively used for storage, to safeguard the bealth in that respect of the maximum number of persons likely to be engaged therein at any one tim:

(c) sanitary fitments are provided to a standard not less than that

required by regulation 5 of the Building (Standards of Sanitary (GNA. Fitments, Plumbing. Drainage Works and Latrines) Regula- 76/39). tions, 1959:

(d) public mains water is laid on to the premises and a storage tank is provided for such water that is of sufficient size having regard to the daily quantity of water likely to be used upon the premises, and proof against access of dust and mosquitoes:

Provided that, where the Director is satisfied that public mains water cannot reasonably be laid on for all or any purposes, he may in his discretion approve such other water supply as, having regard to considerations of public health, be considers adequate:

(e) in every part of the premises in which any milk is processed or

reconstituted-

(i) the floors and internal surfaces of the walls to a height of not less than seven feet are surfaced with smooth, light coloured, non-absorbent material and the junctions between the walls and floors are coved:

(ii) the ceilings are impervious to dust; and

(i) the ceilings and those parts of such walls as are not specified in sub-paragraph (7) are limewashed or painted a light colour;

(f) sufficient ablution facilities are provided for the use of persons employed therein and that such ablution facilities are con- veniently situated having regard to the nature of the work of such persons;

(9) sufficient and suitable cloakroom or locker accommodation, situated otherwise than in a part of the premises in which any milk is processed, reconstituted or stored, is provided for the outer garments and other personal effects of persons employed therein; and

(A) no fresh air intake to any ventilation pipe included in the soil drainage system of the premises is situated in any part of the premises in which milk is processed or reconstituted, and every inlet into such system that is situated in any such part of the premises is trapped.