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(2) Any person who thinks himself aggrieved by any decision of a sanitary
authority under the provisions of this Section may, at any time within twentyone
days from the date of such decision, appeal against the same to a Court of
Summary Jurisdiction, and if on any such appeal it shall appear to the Court
that the premises of the persons appealing are in all respects suitable for the
sale of milk therein, the Court may make an order requiring such authority to
enter upon or restore in the register the name of such person.
THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL POWERS) ACT, 1908.
Part II. — Sanitary Provisions.
Section 8.—(1) From and after 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 article whether solid or liquid intended or adapted
for the food of man is 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.
(b) 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 convenience.
(c) No drain or pipe for carrying off foecal or sewage matter shall have
an 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 or other part of a building
and communicate therewith except through the open air or through
an intervening ventilated space.
(e) Refuse or filth whether solid or liquid shall not be deposited or allowed
to accumulate in any such room, shop, or any part of a building except
so far as may be reasonably necessary for the proper carrying on of
trade or business.
(f) Due cleanliness shall be observed in regard to such room, shop, or
other part of a building, and all articles, apparatus, and utensils
therein, and shall be observed by persons engaged in such room, shop,
or other part of a building.
(2) If any person occupies or lets or knowingly suffers to be occupied any
such room, shop, or other part of a building wherein any of the conditions
prohibited by this Section exist or does or knowingly permits any act or thing
therein in contravention of this Section he shall be liable on summary conviction
to a fine not exceeding for a first offence twenty shillings and for every
subsequent offence five pounds and in either case to a daily penalty not
exceeding twenty shillings