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The Clauses relating to ice creams are as follows:—
Ice Creams.
42. Any person being a manufacturer of or merchant or dealer in ice
creams or other similar commodity who within the County—
(а) 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.
[The City is specially exempted from the operation of the latter
part of this Section.]