Section 32

In this Part —

―contamination‖ includes contamination by odour; and ―contaminated‖ shall be construed accordingly;

―equipment‖ includes apparatus, furnishings and utensils;

―food factory‖ means any of the trades set out in Schedule F;

―food room‖ means any room in a food factory in which any person engages in the handling of food or in the cleaning of equipment used in connection with the sale or preparation of food, but does not include a room used as a sleeping-place if the only handling of food which occurs in such room is in the course of serving food thereto or at the request of any person occupying the room as a sleeping-place;

―infectious‖ or contagious disease‖ includes amoebiasis, anthrax, bacillary dysentry, cerebro-spinal meningitis, chicken-pox, cholera, diphtheria, erysipelas, leprosy, measles, paratyphoid fever, plague, poliomyelitis, puerperal pyrexia, scarlet fever, small-pox, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, typhus, whooping cough and yellow fever;

―licensee‖ means the person for the time being holding a licence issued under any written law in respect of any trade;

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―preparation‖ includes manufacture and any form of treatment, packing and storage.

A person shall be deemed for the purposes of these Regulations, to engage in the handling of food if for the purpose of the business of a food factory he carries out or assists in the preparation, transport, wrapping, exposure for sale, service or delivery of food.

For the purposes of these Regulations, the supply of food otherwise than by sale, at, in or from any place where food is supplied in the course of a business, shall be deemed to be a sale of that food.

Food factories to be repaired and cleaned to the satisfaction of the Health Officer.