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Food and Food Premises 31
THE FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1938
Registration of Premises
Section 14 (1) of this Act requires that any premises used or
proposed to be used for:
(a) the sale, or the manufacture for the purpose of sale, of
ice-cream, or the storage of ice-cream intended for sale; or
(b) the preparation or manufacture of sausages or potted,
pressed, pickled or preserved food;
shall be registered by the owner or the occupier thereof with the
local authority.
During the year 150 applications for registration under the
provisions of Section 14 (1) (a) and 154 applications for registration
under the provisions of Section 14 (1) (b) were submitted to
the Council. In all cases premises were found to be satisfactory
and the registration granted.
Section 57 (1) (a) of this Act requires that it shall not be
lawful:
for the occupier of any premises to use them as a slaughterhouse
or knacker's yard or permit them to be so used, unless
he holds a licence granted under this section by the local
authority authorising him to keep those premises as a slaughterhouse
or, as the case may be, as a knacker's yard.
During the year three applications for the renewal of licences
to use premises as slaughter-houses were submitted to the Council
and granted.
Analysis of Ice-cream
During the year 160 samples of ice-cream were tested in
accordance with the technique suggested by the Ministry of Health
and Public Health Laboratory Service in their Bulletin of March,
1947.