Section 53

The owner, licensee, occupier or keeper of any food factory or any employee or other person working therein or engaged in the handling of any food may be required by the local authority to undergo a medical examination as to his or her fitness to be so engaged.

Such examination shall be carried out by a Government Medical Officer or by a registered medical practitioner appointed either generally or specially by the local authority, who shall report thereon to the local authority.

If any person so examined is found by the examining officer to be suffering from a contagious or infectious disease or any disease of the skin which is offensive or is, in the opinion of the examining officer, likely to be a source of infection, the local authority shall forthwith disqualify the person examined from working in a food factory or engaging in the handling of food until such time as it is certified by the examining officer that he has been cured or is no longer likely to be a source of infection.

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Any person so required who refuses to submit to any medical examination or, who, having been examined and disqualified, continues to work in a food factory or in the handling of any food, shall be guilty of an offence against these Regulations.

The owner, licensee, occupier or keeper of a food factory who, having been notified in writing by the local authority that a person working in such food factory has refused to submit to a medical examination or having been examined, has been disqualified from working in such food factory permits such person to continue to work in, or remain within any food room of, such food factory, shall be guilty of an offence against these Regulations.

B. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO STALLS

Equipment in stalls to be kept clean.