CAP. 140]
Uncut fruit.
Inoculation against cholera.
Authority to destroy,
Penalty G.N.A. 87/51.
Citation.
Public Health (Food).
7. No person shall sell or offer or expose for sale any fresh fruit unless the same is whole, that is to say, uncut and unpeeled: Provided that this by-law shall not apply in the case of peeled pumeloes if the inner skin is unbroken.
8. No person shall engage or be engaged in any business or trade wherein food, including milk products intended for consumption, either without cooking or without further cooking, is procured, prepared, handled, distributed or sold by such person unless proof of recent inoculation against cholera, to the satisfaction of a health officer, can be shown: Provided that this by-law shall not apply to persons engaged in the procuring, handling or sale of cooked foods, including milk products, if contained in the manufacturer's original unbroken sealed containers.
For the purpose of this by-law "milk products" includes ice-cream or any chilled or frozen preparation commonly known as ice-cream.
9. Any officer of the Sanitary Department or any police officer may seize any food which is or appears to be held in contravention of these by-laws and, if ordered so to do in writing by the Chairman of the Urban Council, may destroy it or so dispose of it as to prevent it being used as food for man: Provided that any person claiming anything seized under these by-laws may within 24 hours after such seizure, complain to a magistrate who may either confirm or disallow such seizure wholly or in part, and may order to be paid by way of compensation such sum of money not exceeding the market value of the food seized as he may consider reasonable.
10. (1) Any person who acts in contravention of by-laws 1 to 3, and 5 to 8 shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars or to imprisonment for six months.
(2) Any permit issued under any by-law shall be liable to cancellation by the Council on the breach of any by-law to which the holder of such permit is subject or on breach of any condition of the permit.
11. These by-laws may be cited as the Disease Prevention (Food and Drinks) By-laws.
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CAP. 140]
Uncut fruit.
Inoculation against cholera.
Authority
to destroy,
Penalty G.N.A. 87/51.
Citation.
Public Health (Food).
7. No person shall sell or offer or expose for sale any fresh fruit unless the same is whole, that is to say, uncut and unpeeled: Provided that this by-law shall not apply in the case of peeled pumeloes if the inner skin is unbroken.
8. No person shall engage or be engaged in any business or trade wherein food, including milk products intended for consumption, either without cooking or without further cooking, is procured, prepared, handled, distributed or sold by such person unless proof of recent inoculation against cholera, to the satisfaction of a health officer, can be shown: Provided that this by-law shall not apply to persons engaged in the procuring, handling or sale of cooked foods, including milk products, if contained in the manufacturers original unbroken sealed containers.
For the purpose of this by-law "milk products" includes ice-cream" or any chilled or frozen preparation commonly known as ice-cream.
9. Any officer of the Sanitary Department or any police officer may seize any food which is or appears to be held in contravention of these by-laws and, if ordered so to do in writing by the Chairman of the Urban Council, may destroy it or so dispose of it as to prevent it being used as food for man: Provided that any person claiming anything seized under these by-laws may within 24 hours after such seizure, complain to a magistrate who may either confirm or disallow such seizure wholly or in part, and may order to be paid by way of compensation such sum of money not exceeding the market value of the food seized as he may consider reasonable.
10. (1) Any person who acts in contravention of by- laws 1 to 3, and 5 to 8 shall be liable on summary convic- tion to a fine of two thousand dollars or to imprisonment for six months.
(2) Any permit issued under any by-law shall be liable to cancellation by the Council on the breach of any by- law to which the holder of such permit is subject or on breach of any condition of the permit.
11. These by-laws may be cited as the Disease Pre- vention (Food and Drinks) By-laws.
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