Enactment
of by-laws in Schedule.
By-laws subject to approval of Legislative Council.
Penalties.
Direction
of Technical
services.
Commence- ment.
6. The by-laws in the Schedule shall be in force except
as they may be rescinded, suspended, amended or added to by by-laws made by the Urban Council under section 5.
7. All by-laws made by the Urban Council shall be sub- mitted to the Governor, and shall be subject to the approval of the Legislative Council.
8. Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Ordmance or of any by-law made thereunder shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or
to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, as well as to suffer any forfeiture that may be prescribed therein.
9. The execution of the various technical services prescribed by this Ordinance and the by-laws made thereunder shall be carried out under the general direction of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services.
10. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until such date as the Governor shall notify by Proclamation as the date of commencement of this Ordinance.
SCHEDULE.
FOOD FACTORIES BY-LAWS.
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1. No building or part of a building shall be used as a food factory unless licensed by the Urban Council.
2. Every keeper of a food factory shall cause the floor thereof to
be thoroughly washed and cleansed at least once every day.
8. Every keeper of a food factory shall cause the whole of the inside walls thereof to be properly scraped and whitewashed at least once a quarter and also at all other times when he may be required to do so by notice in writing from the Urban Council.
4. Every keeper of a food factory shall cause every table and implement used in the preparation of food and every table, shelf or other article used for placing food in or upon to be thoroughly washed and cleansed once at least in every day.
5. No keeper of a food factory shall use any but wholesome water
for the preparation of food or for cleansing the premises.
6. Every keeper of a food factory shall cause every means of ventilation in connection therewith to be kept in good order and efficient action.
7. No keeper of a food factory shall cause or allowed to be brought into, placed in or carried through such food factory any night-stool or other receptacle for urine or excreta.
8. No keeper of a food factory shall sit, stand or lie down upon any table or shelf in such food factory, nor shall he allow any other person to sit, stand or lie down upon any such table or shelf, nor shall he sleep or allow any other person to sleep within such food factory.
9. No person suffering from any skin disease or infectious dis- order, or who has recently been in contact with a person so suffering, shall enter any food factory or take part in or assist in any way in the conduct of the trade carried on there.
10. No person shall commit a nuisance or spit within the precincts of any food factory.
11. No keeper of a food factory shall keep or allow to be kept therein any animal or bird.
12. Every keeper of a food factory shall afford to the Food Officer free access to every part thereof for the purpose of inspection at all hours during the day time and also at all times during the night when work is going on in the food factory.
13. Whenever it appears to the Urban Council that any house or building or part thereof used for the preparation, storage or sale of food is in such an insanitary condition as to be unfit for such use, the occupier or, in the case of unoccupied premises, the owner thereof shall whitewash, cleanse, purify or otherwise remedy the same as may be required the Council by notice in writing signed by the Secretary thereof.
14. No occupier of any house or building or part thereof which is used for the preparation, storage, or sale of food shall keep or allow to be kept therein or adjacent thereto for more than 24 hours or otherwise than in some proper receptacle, any dirt, dung, bones, ashes, nightsoil, filth or any noxious or offensive matter or shall suffer such receptacle to be in a filthy or noxious state or shall fail to employ proper means to remove the filth therefrom and to cleanse and purify the same.
FOOD PRESERVING ESTABLISHMENTS BY-LAWS.
1. For the purposes of these by-laws the expression "food- preserving establishment' means any business, undertaking or concern which carries on the trade of food preserving, or any of the branches of such trade, that is to say, the making of sugar confectionery, cocoa, chocolate, jam, narmalade, preserved fruits, Chinese preserves, fruit and table jellies, meat extracts, meat essences, sauces
and pickles; the preparation of meat, poultry, gume, fish, vegetables and fruit for sale in a preserved state in tins, pots, bottles, jars, barrels, drums and similar receptacles; and the processes of wrapping and filling, and packing other than the packing of the finished article in cases or crates merely for storage or transport,
2. A register of food-preserving establishments will be kept by
the Secretary of the Urban Council,
8-11) No person shall continue or commence any food-preserving establishment unless it is registered under these by-laws,
(2) In order to effect registration, and subject to these by-laws, one of the persons specified in paragraph (8) shall furnish to the Secretary of the Council the particulars specified in the form in the Schedule to these by-laws and shall certify the correctness of such particulars and of his own description.
(3) The particulars specified, and any other particulars and certifi- cates required by this by-law shall be furnished and certified by the proprietor or one of the proprietors of the food-preserving establishment aud in the ease of a company by a director, manager, secretary or other officer of the company.
(4) If any change occurs, or if any inaccuracy is discovered, in any of the specified particulars. the persons specified in paragraph (3) shall. within seven days, furnish substituted particulars to the Secretary of the Council and shall certify the correctness of such substituted particulars and of their own discriptions: provided that if one of such persons complies with the requirements of this paragraph the obligations imposed by this paragraph on any other persons sha!! by deemed to have been discharged as regards the substituted parti- rulars so furnished.
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