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CAP. 140]

Use of market avenues.

Place of sale.

No obstruction.

Structures and obstructions.

No hawking &c.

No begging &c.

Medical examination.

Public Health (Food).

25. No person shall make use of any avenue or thoroughfare of any market for the conveyance of merchandise not intended for sale or exposure for sale in such market.

26. No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, any article in any part of a market except in that part appropriated by the Council for the sale of such article.

27. No signboard or blind on any stall shall obstruct any thoroughfare in such market, and no lessee shall place or store any goods outside his market stall or allow them to project beyond it.

28. No person shall erect any structure in a market nor in any other way whatsoever cause any kind of obstruction in a market.

29. No person shall hawk or cry any article whatever for sale in any market.

30. No person shall beg, apply for alms or expose or exhibit any sores, wounds or bodily ailments or deformity, in any market, nor shall any person so afflicted or any leper engage or assist in any business therein.

31. (1) Every person engaged or employed in any capacity in any market shall submit himself for such medical examination and at such time and place as may be designated by a health officer.

(2) If, after medical examination, it is the opinion of a health officer that employment in a market has caused, or is likely to cause, spread of communicable disease, the person so medically examined shall be notified in writing and he shall forthwith cease to engage himself or to allow himself to be employed in any market until he has been certified by medical certificate to be no longer likely to cause spread of communicable disease.

(3) It shall be unlawful for any lessee to employ any person who, in accordance with paragraph (2), is deemed to have caused, or is likely to cause, spread of communicable disease.

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CAP. 140] Use of market avenues. Place of sale. No obstruction. Structures and obstructions. No hawking &c. No begging &c. Medical examination. Public Health (Food). 25. No person shall make use of any avenue or thoroughfare of any market for the conveyance of merchandise not intended for sale or exposure for sale in such market. 26. No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, any article in any part of a market except in that part appropriated by the Council for the sale of such article. 27. No signboard or blind on any stall shall obstruct any thoroughfare in such market, and no lessee shall place or store any goods outside his market stall or allow them to project beyond it. 28. No person shall erect any structure in a market nor in any other way whatsoever cause any kind of obstruction in a market. 29. No person shall hawk or cry any article whatever for sale in any market. 30. No person shall beg, apply for alms or expose or exhibit any sores, wounds or bodily ailments or deformity, in any market, nor shall any person so afflicted or any leper engage or assist in any business therein. 31. (1) Every person engaged or employed in any capacity in any market shall submit himself for such medical examination and at such time and place as may be designated by a health officer. (2) If, after medical examination, it is the opinion of a health officer that employment in a market has caused, or is likely to cause, spread of communicable disease, the person so medically examined shall be notified in writing and he shall forthwith cease to engage himself or to allow himself to be employed in any market until he has been certified by medical certificate to be no longer likely to cause spread of communicable disease. (3) It shall be unlawful for any lessee to employ any person who, in accordance with paragraph (2), is deemed to have caused, or is likely to cause, spread of communicable disease. 152
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CAP. 140] Use of market avenues. Place of sale. No obstruction. Structures and obstructions. No hawking &c. No begging &c. Medical examination. Public Health (Food). 25. No shall person make use of any avenue or thoroughfare of any market for the conveyance of merchan- dise not intended for sale or exposure for sale in such market. 26. No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, any article in any part of a market except in that part appropriated by the Council for the sale of such article. 27. No signboard or blind on any stail shall obstruct any thoroughfare in such market, and no lessee shall place or store any goods outside his market stall or allow them to project beyond it. 28. No person shall erect any structure in a market nor in any other way whatsoever cause any kind of obstruc- tion in a market. 29. No person shall hawk or cry any article whatever for sale in any market. 30. No person shall beg, apply for alms or expose or exhibit any sores, wounds or bodily ailments or deformity, in any market, nor shall any person so afflicted or any leper engage or assist in any business therein. 31. (1) Every person engaged or employed in any capacity in any market shall submit himself for such medical examination and at such time and place as may be designated by a health officer. (2) If, after medical examination, it is the opinion of a health officer that employment in a market has caused, or is likely to cause, spread of communicable disease, the person so medically examined shall be notified in writing and he shall forthwith cease to engage himself or to allow himself to be employed in any market until he has been certified by medical certificate to be no longer likely to cause spread of communicable disease. (3) It shall be unlawful for any lessee to employ any person who, in accordance with paragraph (2), is deemed to have caused, or is likely to cause, spread of communicable disease. 152
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CAP. 140]

Use of market avenues.

Place of sale.

No

obstruction.

Structures and

obstructions.

No hawking &c.

No begging &c.

Medical examination.

Public Health (Food).

25. No

shall person

make use of any avenue or thoroughfare of any market for the conveyance of merchan- dise not intended for sale or exposure for sale in such market.

26. No person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, any article in any part of a market except in that part appropriated by the Council for the sale of such article.

27. No signboard or blind on any stail shall obstruct any thoroughfare in such market, and no lessee shall place or store any goods outside his market stall or allow them to project beyond it.

28. No person shall erect any structure in a market nor in any other way whatsoever cause any kind of obstruc- tion in a market.

29. No person shall hawk or cry any article whatever for sale in any market.

30. No person shall beg, apply for alms or expose or exhibit any sores, wounds or bodily ailments or deformity, in any market, nor shall any person so afflicted or any leper engage or assist in any business therein.

31. (1) Every person engaged or employed in any capacity in any market shall submit himself for such medical examination and at such time and place as may be designated by a health officer.

(2) If, after medical examination, it is the opinion of a health officer that employment in a market has caused, or is likely to cause, spread of communicable disease, the person so medically examined shall be notified in writing and he shall forthwith cease to engage himself or to allow himself to be employed in any market until he has been certified by medical certificate to be no longer likely to cause spread of communicable disease.

(3) It shall be unlawful for any lessee to employ any person who, in accordance with paragraph (2), is deemed to have caused, or is likely to cause, spread of communicable disease.

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