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CAP. 132] Food Business (Regional Council) Bylaws

[1989 Ed.

[Subsidiary]

(ƒ) any warehouse, other than a warehouse in which articles of food are stored under refrigeration. (L.N. 125 of 1970)

PART II

(10 of 1986 s. 32(2))

5.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO FOOD BUSINESSES

Cleanliness and repair of food premises

(1) Every person who carries on any food business shall at all times cause the walls, floors, doors, windows, ceiling, woodwork and all other parts of the structure of any food premises used by him in the course of such food business to be kept clean and free from noxious matters and to be kept in such good order, repair and condition as to-

(a) enable them to be effectively cleaned; and

(b) prevent, so far as is reasonably practicable, infestation by rats, mice and insects and the entry of birds.

(2) No person engaged in any food business shall place or permit to be placed or to remain placed any furniture or equipment, other than such as can be moved without difficulty by one man, so near to any wall in any food premises as to obstruct access to any part of such wall, or of such furniture or equipment, for the purpose of cleaning.

(3) No person engaged in any food business shall knowingly suffer or permit--

(a) in any food premises, the presence of rats, mice or insects; or (b) in any food room, the presence of live birds or animals.

(4) If it appears to the Council on the report of any health officer or health inspector that any food premises, or any part thereof, are or is, by reason of uncleanliness or structural repair or condition, in such a state as to be unfit for use in any food business, the Council may cause a notice to be served upon the proprietor of such food business requiring him to cleanse, disinfest, limewash, repair or modify such food premises, or such part thereof, in such manner and within such time as shall be specified in the notice and, in the opinion of the Council, be necessary to render such premises or such part thereof fit for use as food premises. (10 of 1986 s. 32(2); L.N. 387 of 1987)

(5) If the proprietor fails to comply with any of the requirements of a notice served under paragraph (4)-

(a) he shall be guilty of an offence; and

(b) the Council may cause such work as may be necessary for compliance with the requirements of the notice to be carried

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