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LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1902,
[2 EDW. 7, CH. CLXXIII.]
Part VIII.—Ice Cream*.
42.—Any person being a manufacturer of or merchant or dealer in ice creams
or other similar commodity who within the County—
(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.
43.—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.
44.—Proceedings for the recovery of the penalties imposed by the two last
preceding sections of this Act 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;
Provided always that if any Sanitary Authority omit to institute
such proceedings the Council may institute the same as if such omission
were a default within the meaning of the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, and the provisions of that Act relating to any such default and the
consequences thereof shall apply with respect to such proceedings.
45.-
Part IX.—Common Lodging-Houses.
46.—The Council may within six months after the passing of this Act give
notice to every keeper of a common lodging-house in the County, who shall
then be registered under the Common Lodging-Houses Acts, 1851 and