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PART IV
FOOD ESTABLISHMENTS
21. No person shall operate or use or knowingly permit a food establishment to be used for any of the purposes specified in the Second Schedule without obtaining a licence from the Director-General.
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22.
—(1) The Director-General may require —
(a)
any person to whom a licence has been issued under this Part (referred to in this Act as a licensee);
(b)
any assistant or employee of the licensee; or
(c)
any applicant for a licence under this Part,
to submit to medical examination.
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(2) If such licensee, assistant, employee or applicant is suffering from or is suspected to be suffering from an infectious disease or is suspected to be a carrier thereof, the Director-General may require him to undergo treatment.
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(3) The Director-General may require that treatment to be obtained at any hospital as he may think fit.
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(4) The Director-General may require any licensee or any assistant or employee of the licensee to submit to immunisation against any infectious disease.
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(5) Every licensee shall ensure that his assistant or employee is immunised against any infectious disease as required by the Director-General.
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(6) The Director-General may, at any time, revoke or suspend any licence issued under this Part if —
(a)
the licensee is suffering from an infectious disease;
(b)
the licensee knowingly employs any person who is suffering from or is suspected to be suffering from an infectious disease;
(c)
the licensee, his assistant or employee refuses to comply with any requisition made by the Director-General under subsection (1), (2) or (3); or
(d)
23.
—(1) Any person who uses a vehicle for the transportation of food shall ensure that the surface of the vehicle with which the food is likely to come into contact is kept in a state of cleanliness, good order and condition so as to prevent any risk of contamination of the food.
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(2) The Director-General may, by notice in writing, require any person who uses a vehicle to transport food to use or install in or on the vehicle any device or equipment as he thinks fit to ensure that the food carried in or on the vehicle will not be contaminated.
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24.
—(1) Any person who contravenes any provision of this Part shall be guilty of an offence and may be arrested without warrant by any police officer or authorised officer and taken before a Magistrate’s Court.
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(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) or any other written law for the time being in force, any police officer or authorised officer who, having effected an arrest under subsection (1), is satisfied as to the identity, name and place of residence of the person arrested, may, instead of taking him before a Magistrate’s Court or to a police station, serve upon that person a notice in such form as may be required under section 53 requiring him to attend at the Court described at the hour and on the date specified in the notice.
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(3) For the purpose of satisfying himself as to the identity of the person arrested, the police officer or authorised officer may require the person arrested to furnish such evidence of identity as he may consider necessary.
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(4) A duplicate of the notice served under subsection (2) shall be prepared by the police officer or authorised officer, as the case may be, and produced by him to a Magistrate’s Court if so required by the Court.
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(5) On an accused person appearing before a Magistrate’s Court under such a notice, the Court shall take cognizance of the offence alleged and shall proceed as though he were produced before it under subsection (1).
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(6) If a person upon whom a notice under subsection (2) has been served fails to appear before a Magistrate’s Court in accordance with the notice, the Court shall thereupon issue a warrant for the arrest of that person.
(7) Where a person is arrested under subsection (6), a Magistrate’s Court —
(a)
shall proceed as though he were produced before it under subsection (1);
(b)
at the conclusion of the proceedings, shall call upon him to show cause why he should not be punished for failing to attend in compliance with the notice served upon him; and
(c)
if cause is not shown, may order him to pay such penalty not exceeding $2,000 as the Court may think fit or may commit him to prison for a term not exceeding 2 months.
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