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(b) shall cause such stall (if not placed in an enclosed and covered
market place) to be suitably covered over and to be screened at the sides
and back thereof in such a manner as to prevent mud, filtfh or other
contaminating substance being splashed or blown from the ground upon
any meat on the stall;
(c) shall cause every counter, slab, vessel or other article on or in
which meat is placed for sale and all knives and other implements used
in connection with the meat to be thoroughly cleansed after use and to be
kept at all times in a cleanly condition;
(d) shall take all such steps as may be reasonably necessary to guard
against the contamination of the meat by flies;
(e) shall not place or cause to be placed any meat on, or within eighteen
inches of the ground or floor, unless the meat is placed in a closed
cupboard or other adequately protected space not less than nine inches
from the ground or floor;
(f) shall cause all trimmings, refuse and rubbish to be placed in
properly covered receptacles kept for the purpose apart from any meat
intended for sale.
PART V.—SHOPS, STORES, Etc.
20.—1. The occupier of any room in which meat 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, and any person who knowingly lets any room or suffers
any room to be occupied for such purpose shall cause the following provisions
to be complied with:—
(a) No urinal, water-closet, earth-closet, privy, ashpit or other like
sanitary convenience shall be within such room or shall communicate
directly therewith, or shall be otherwise so placed that offensive odours
therefrom can penetrate to such room;
(b) No cistern for supplying water to such room shall be in direct
communication with or directly discharge into any such sanitary
convenience;
(c) No drain or pipe for carrying off faecal or sewage matter shall have
any inlet or opening within such room unless it is efficiently trapped;
(d) No such room 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 meat as aforesaid, no sleeping place shall communicate
directly with such room;
(e) Except in the case of a room used as a cold store, adequate means
of ventilation shall be provided.
2. The occupier of any such room shall not cause or suffer any refuse or
filth whether solid or liquid to be deposited or to accumulate therein except
so far as may be reasonably necessary for the proper carrying on of the trade
or business.