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Transport.
4. Every person who transports or causes to be transported:—
(a) Any article intended to be sold for food, unless such article is entirely enclosed in a
tin, jar, receptacle, container or other adequate protective covering, or is transported in a
suitably covered vehicle completely enclosed except only for any necessary ventilators, shall
cover and keep covered or cause to be covered and kept covered such article during transit
with suitable clean material or shall otherwise adequately protect such article during transit
from dust, dirt, flies and other sources of contamination.
(b) Any article intended to be sold for food in any receptacle or container not entirely
enclosed, or any vehicle, shall maintain or cause to be maintained such receptacle or container
and the interior of any such vehicle in a reasonably clean condition, having regard to the
nature of the article being transported.
Provided always that this Bye-law shall not apply to the transportation of any article within
the same premises or to any article in course of delivery to any premises from, or in course of
loading from any premises to, a vehicle standing at the nearest available point on the highway
adjoining such premises.
Penalties.
5. Every person who shall offend against any of the foregoing Bye-laws shall be liable on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding the sum of five pounds, and in the case of a continuing offence
to a further fine not exceeding the sum of forty shillings for each day during which the offence
continues after conviction.
Savings.
6. The penalties prescribed by these Bye-laws shall not apply in any case where the offence committed
is an offence against:—
(a) The provisions of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, as amended by any subsequent
enactment.
(b) The provisions of section 42 (for regulating manufacture and sale of ice creams, etc.)
of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1902.
(c) The provisions of section 8 (sanitary regulations for premises used for sale, etc., of
food) of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908.
(d) The provisions of the Shops Act, 1934.
(e) Any regulation made under or partly under the Public Health (Regulations as to Food)
Act, 1907.
(f) Any Bye-law made under section 19 (Bye-laws as to offensive businesses) of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891.
(j) Any Bye-law made under section 9 (vendors of fried fish, fish-curers and rag and bone
dealers) of the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908.
(h) Any Bye-law made under Part VI (Regulation of Street Trading) of the London County
Council (General Powers) Act, 1927;
or is an offence in respect of milk punishable under any enactment or order or regulation.
Exemptions.
7. Nothing in these Bye-laws shall apply to:—
(a) Spitalfields Market in the Metropolitan Borough of Stepney so long as such Market is
vested in and under the control of the Corporation of the City of London; and
(b) The slaughterhouses, and the chill rooms, lairs and other buildings used in connection
therewith at the Metropolitan Cattle Market in the Metropolitan Borough of Islington so long
as such slaughterhouses, chill rooms, lairs and other buildings used in connection therewith
are vested in and under the control of the Corporation of the City of London and are used
for the purposes of or in connection with, the slaughtering of animals.
The foregoing Bye-laws were made by the Council on 28th July, 1936, and will be duly submitted
to the Minister of Health for confirmation.