Laundries
and laundry equipment to be kept in
good repair, etc.
Laundries
not to be used
for dwelling purposes.
Restriction on cooking in
laundries.
Frohibition of
the keeping of
animalı or poultry.
Restriction on
employment of
persons likely
Lo spread
disease.
(b) any alteration in respect of any matter specified in
regulation 6.
8. Every licensee of a laundry shall, at all times, cause every part of the premises at which he maintains the laundry and all fittings 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) or paragraph (3). no person shall use, or permit to be used, for dwelling purposes any part of a laundry.
(2) Not more than two caretakers may dwell in a part thereof set aside solely for the purpose.
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(3) The Director, on the advice of a bealth officer, may grant to the licensee of a laundry permission in writing to use any part of the laundry for dwelling purposes subject to such conditions and requirements as the Director may in his discretion consider appropriate.
10, (1) No person shall prepare or cook any food for human consumption in any part of a laundry in which any operation of laundering is carried on.
(2) No person shall prepare or cook any food for human consumption in any other part of a laundry, except in a properly constructed kitchen or other suitable place therein that may be approved by the Director.
11. No person shall keep or permit to be kept in any laundry any animal or any poultry.
12. (1) No person suffering from a septic wound, laceration or abrasion of the skin, any infectious skin disease or any other infectious 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 any case in which such officer is satisfied that no danger to the public health is involved.
(2) Any person employed or working in a laundry shall, if so required in writing by a health officer, submit himself to medical examination at such time and place as such officer may direct and, if after medical examination, a health officer is satisfied that such person is suffering from any infectious disease or is likely to infect any other person, such last mentioned health officer may notify such person in writing to that effect, and such person shall forthwith cease to work in the same or any other laundry.
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(3) A notice given under the provisions of paragraph (2) shall continue in fores until cancelled by a further notice in writing by a health officer declaring such first mentioned notice to be cancelled.
(4) No person shall cause, suffer or permit any person, other than a person who has been duly exempted from the provisions of paragraph (1), whom he knows or has reason to believe to be suffering from any of the complaints specified in that paragraph to take any part in the laundering or handling of any articles in any laundry.
(5) No person shall cause, or suffer or permit, any person in respect of whom he knows or has reason to believe that a notice given under the provisions of paragraph (2) is in force to work in any laundry.
13. No person shall cause, or suffer or permit, any article received into a laundry for laundering, which has not been laundered, to come into contact with any other such article which has been laundered.
14. (1) No person shall spit in any laundry, except into a spittoon or other receptacle provided for the purpose.
(2) Where spittoons or other receptacles are provided in any laundry, the licensee of the laundry shall cause each such spittoon or receptacle to contain disinfectant fluid and to be cleansed, and the fluid renewed, not less than once in every twenty-four hours.
(3) Save as otherwise permitted in writing by the Director, every licensee of a laundry shall cause one or more notices bearing the wording of paragraph (1) and written in Chinese, to be con- tinuously displayed in a conspicuous place in every part of the laundry in which any process of laundering is carried on or in which laundered articles are handled or stored.
15. No person shall spray, or permit to be sprayed, any water from the mouth or from any mouth-sprayer upon any articles which are being ironed or pressed in any laundry.
16. (1) Save where exempted in writing by the Director, every licensee of
laundry shall cause every hollow space, crevice
or other place in any laundry maintained by him, which is likely to harbour vermin or to constitute a means of access for vermin to the laundry, to be eliminated or sealed off.
(2) No person shall place, or suffer or permit to be placed or to remain placed, any furniture or equipment, other than such
Separation of clean from dirty articles.
Restriction on spitting
Prohibition against spraying water by mouth or mouih- sprayer during ironing.
Prevention of vemmin.
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