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(a) Causes or permits Ice-creams, or any similar commodity,
to be manufactured, sold, or stored in any cellar,
shed, or room, in which there is any inlet or opening to
a drain, or which is used as a living room or sleeping
room;
(b) In the manufacture, sale or storage of any such
commodity, does any act or thing likely to expose such
commodity to infection or contamination, or omits to take
any proper precaution for the due protection of such
commodity from infection or contamination; or
(c) Omits, on the outbreak of any infectious disease
amongst the persons employed in his business, or living
or working in, on, or about the premises in, or on, any
part of which any such commodity as aforesaid is manufactured,
sold, or stored, to give notice thereof forthwith
to the Medical Officer of the Sanitary District in which
such business is carried on, or such premises are situate—
shall be liable for every such offence, on conviction in a Court
of Summary Jurisdiction, to a penalty not exceeding Forty
Shillings.
The above provisions apply to all persons being manu
facturers of, or merchants, or dealers in, Ice-creams, or other
similar commodity.
Special provisions are made with respect to street sellers
of the dainty, as follows : —
Every itinerant vendor of any such commodity as aforesaid
shall, if not himself the manufacturer thereof, exhibit
in a legible manner, on a conspicuous part of his barrow,
a notice stating the name and address of the person from
whom he obtains such commodity, and if such vendor is
himself the manufacturer of such commodity, he shall in
the same manner exhibit his own name and address.
Every such itinerant vendor who shall fail to comply with
the provisions of this Section, shall be liable for each
offence, on conviction as aforesaid, to a penalty not
exceeding Forty Shillings.
Proceedings for the recovery of the penalties shall be
instituted by the Sanitary Authority for the district in
which the offence was committed, or of the District to the
Medical Officer of which such notification as aforesaid
ought to have been made, or in which such itinerant
vendor as aforesaid shall offer any such commodity, as
aforesaid, for sale, as the case may be.