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owner or occupier thereof with the sanitary authority and no
premises shall be used for the purposes aforesaid or any of
them unless the same are registered as aforesaid.
(2) Any person offending against the provisions of this
section shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding 40s., and to
a daily penalty not exceeding 20s.
(3) This section shall not apply to any premises occupied
as a factory or workshop respecting which notice is required
by sub-section (1) of section 127 (Notice of occupation of
factory or workshop) of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901,
to be given and shall not in any way affect the operation of
that Act.
(4) This section shall not apply to any premises used
as a hotel restaurant or club.
It is to be regretted that the person as well as the premises
should not be required to be registered (as in the case of Milk),
and furthermore that the Council should not have the power to
refuse to register where the premises are found to be unsuitable
on sanitary grounds.
Applications for the registration of 151 premises were granted
by the Council during the year. In one case the application was
not granted, the premises being regarded as unsuitable for the
purpose, on sanitary grounds. There was, therefore, no change
in the number of premises compared with 1928.
All the premises, stalls, barrows, &c., from which the trade is
carried on are kept under daily inspection during the season.
During the year 312 inspections were made and 4 notices
(including 1 statutory notice), were served to remedy defects
found on inspection.
The improvement in the manner in which this commodity is
now prepared and sold, referred to in previous annual reports, is
on the whole being maintained.
Milk and Dairies Order, 1926.
The provisions of the above-named Order, which had already
been brought to the notice of milk purveyors in the Borough
and which are referred to in detail in the Annual Report of the
Medical Officer of Health for 1926, were enforced by the Council's
Officers during the year under report.
Proceedings were taken in 5 cases where milk roundsmen
were observed to fill milk bottles in the street, contrary to the
provisions of the Order. The result of the proceedings in each
case is set out on page 68.