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Sec. 7. Where it appears to a Sanitary Authority that any
tenement house within their district is without a sufficient and
suitable accommodation for the cooking of food, such Authority may
cause notice to be served on the owner of such house, requiring him,
within a reasonable time, to provide sufficient and suitable
accommodation for the purpose aforesaid, under a penalty of noncompliance
within the period prescribed in the notice not exceeding
forty shillings, and a daily penalty not exceeding twenty shillings.
Provided this section shall not apply to any tenement house used or
occupied as such before the passing of this Act.
Sec. 8 (1) From the passing of this Act the following
provisions shall apply to any room, shop, or other part of a building
within the County, in which any articles, whether solid or liquid,
intended or adapted for the food of man, are sold or exposed for sale
or deposited for the purpose of sale or of preparation for sale or with
a view to future sale :—
(a) No urinal, water-closet, earth-closet, privy ashpit, or other
like sanitary convenience shall be within such room, shop,
or other part of a building, or shall communicate therewith
except through the open air or through an intervening
ventilated space.
(A) No cistern for supplying water to such room, shop, or other
part of a building shall be in direct communication with
and directly discharge into any such sanitary convenience.
(c) No drain or pipe for carrying off foecal or sewage matter
shall have any inlet or opening within such room, shop, or
other part of a building.
(d) No such room, shop, or other part of a building shall be
used as a sleeping place, and so far as may be reasonably
necessary to prevent risk of the infection or contamination
of any such article as aforesaid, no sleeping place shall
adjoin such room, shop, or other part of a building, and
communicate therewith except through the open air or
through an intervening ventilated space.