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1989 Ed.] Food Business (Regional Council) Bylaws

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[Subsidiary]

any business in the course of which food is supplied the place where food is served to the customers is different from the place where the food is prepared, both those places shall be deemed to be places in which food is sold.

(4) In determining for the purposes of these bylaws whether any matter involves risk of contamination to any food, regard shall be had to the extent to which contamination in the respect in question is immaterial because of—

(a) the nature of the food; or

(b) the manner in which the food is packed; or

(c) any process to which the food is to be subjected before sale to the consumer, being a process to which food of that nature is normally so subjected.

(10 of 1986 s. 32(2))

4. Interpretation of food business

(1) In these bylaws, unless the context otherwise requires, the expression "food business" means, subject to the succeeding provisions of this bylaw, any trade or business for the purpose of which any person engages in the handling of food or food is sold by means of a vending machine. (L.N. 212 of 1973)

(2) The said expression does not include any agricultural activity, any canteen in any naval, military or air force establishment or provided in any school or work place (other than a factory canteen referred to in bylaw 31) for the use exclusively of the pupils of the school and the persons employed in the work place, respectively, any club or (except so far as the handling of food may be involved in the course of a retail business or in the course of supplying food for immediate consumption) so much of any trade or business as consists of the handling of food at, in or upon (L.N. 175 of 1980)

(a) any dock or wharf; or (L.N. 125 of 1970)

(b) except in the case of any business involving the transport of meat, whether cooked or uncooked, any premises or place occupied by a carrier of foods for the purposes of his trade as such a carrier; or

(c) any slaughterhouse; or

(d) any premises or place occupied by a wholesaler of raw vegetables and used exclusively for the purpose of his trade or business as such a wholesaler; or

(e) any premises which—

(i) are used exclusively for the storage of food manufactured and packed by the occupier thereof; and

(ii) are situated outside the curtilage of the premises used for the manufacture or packing of that food; and

(iii) are not used for the storage of any open food; or

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