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4. This article shall not apply to any meat which is packed in hampers
or other strongly constructed and impervious cases or is adequately wrapped
in jute or some other stout fabric.
NOTE.—The Public Health Act, 1896, provides by sub-section (3) of
Section 1, that if any person wilfully neglects or refuses to obey or carry out,
or obstructs the execution of any regulations made under any of the enactments
mentioned in that Act, he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding £100, and,
in the case of a continuing offence, to a further penalty not exceeding £50 for
every day during which the offence continues.
FOOP PREMISES.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Part II of the London County Council
(General Powers) Act, 1908, provides as follows:—
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 an which ANY
ARTICLE whether SOLID OR LIQUID intended or adapted for the food of
mam is sold or exposed for sale or deposited for the purpose of sale or of
preparation for sale or with a view to further 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 sanitary convenience;
(c) No drain or pipe for carrying off fæcal or sewage matter shall
have any 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; shop 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 other 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.
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 the first offence twenty shillings and for every
subsequent offence five pounds and in either case to a daily penalty not
exceeding twenty shillings.