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(b.) Such record of registered premises shall be available at all reasonable times for inspection by any officer of the Department of Health.
(c.) Every registration shall terminate each year on such date as the local authority may by resolution decide, and shall be renewable annually on application being made to the local authority by the proprietor, manager, or other person responsible.
(d.) Fees for the registration and the renewal or transfer of registration shall be payable to the local authority, and the amount of such fees shall be as the local authority by resolution decides.
(e.) The local authority may at any time during the currency of any registration transfer the registration so as to apply to any other person or premises; and in the event of any proposed change of the proprietorship or management of the premises, or any other alteration affecting the particulars of registration, the person responsible shall make application to the local authority to have such alteration recorded in the record of registration and endorsed on the certificate of registration.
(f.) Every certificate of registration shall show the name of the proprietor or manager or other person responsible for the management of the eating-house, together with the date of registration or renewal of registration, and the position and description of the premises, and any alterations as referred to in the last preceding paragraph.
(g.) A fresh certificate of registration shall be issued on every renewal of registration, and the certificate shall be posted conspicuously in a part of the premises to which the public have access.
(3.) On being satisfied that any premises registered as an eating-house are not being kept or conducted in accordance with any of the provisions of these regulations, the local authority may, during the currency of such registration, cancel the registration or refuse to renew any registration which has terminated; and shall give notice in writing of such cancellation or refusal to the proprietor, manager, or other person responsible for the management of the eating-house, and may indicate in such notice the conditions under which the registration may be renewed.
6. Before registering any premises as an eating-house in accordance with these regulations the local authority shall be satisfied that the following provisions have been complied with:
(a.) The premises shall be in accordance with any regulations governing the storage and preparation of food, and with any by-laws of the local authority as to buildings, drainage, and sanitation.
(b.) The premises shall be in accordance with the provisions of section 37 of the Health Act, 1920, in respect to privy accommodation. (See footnote marked *.)
(c.) The premises shall be so constructed and so provided with appliances as to ensure that no nuisance within the meaning of the Health Act, 1920, is likely to be created by the use of the premises as an eating-house. (See footnote marked **.)
(d.) Any kitchen and any place in which food is prepared for consumption, and any place in which the utensils used in the preparation and serving of food are cleaned—
(i.) Shall have sufficient floor-space to enable every person working therein to carry out his duties effectively;
(ii.) Shall be, in the case of any kitchen, in aggregate area not less than 100 superficial feet, and the walls shall be of an average height of not less than 8 ft.;
(iii.) Shall have window-space opening to the external air sufficient to provide adequate lighting and ventilation;
(iv.) Shall be provided with floorings of non-absorbent material with a smooth surface, or of smooth close-jointed tongued-and-grooved boards;
(v.) Shall be provided with walls having a non-absorbent or readily cleansed surface.
(e.) Every kitchen on the premises, and every place in which food is prepared for serving to the public, shall have all windows, doors, and ventilators adequately protected by movable gauze screens or by other effective methods so as to prevent the entrance of flies.
(f.) Every cupboard or other place used and intended for the storage of food shall be constructed so as to be readily cleansed and so as to protect any food stored therein from damp, and from contamination of any sort, and from access by rats or other vermin, and as far as practicable from dust and flies.
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(g.) There shall be sufficient sinks and like appliances to ensure that all utensils used in the preparation, service, or consumption of food in the eating-house are effectively cleansed.
(h.) There shall be sufficient cupboards or receptacles for the storage of the hats and other outdoor garments used by the persons employed on the premises, and an adequate number of hand-basins sufficiently supplied with water to enable such persons to cleanse their hands.
(i.) There shall be on the premises a sufficient number of watertight metal receptacles to receive the garbage resulting during each working-day from the use of the premises as an eating-house, and such receptacles shall be so designed as to be readily cleansed, and shall be provided with a lid so fitted as to protect the interior from rain and from the access of flies or vermin.
7. It shall be the duty of every proprietor of an eating-house, and of every person responsible for the management of an eating-house, to carry out the following provisions in regard to such eating-house, that is to say,—
(a.) He shall not employ any person on the premises who is suffering from a communicable disease.
(b.) He shall secure that every person engaged in the preparation or serving of food shall keep his clothing and person clean.
(c.) He shall not permit clothing to be kept in cupboards or like places in which food is stored.
(d.) He shall ensure that all utensils used in the preparation, service, or consumption of food are effectively cleansed after use. Any utensil from which all traces of food or foreign matter have not been removed, or which has not been rinsed in clean hot water, shall be deemed not to be effectively cleansed.
(e.) He shall not permit any utensils to be used which have been so damaged as to render effective cleansing difficult.
(f.) He shall ensure that wall-surfaces liable to contamination, and floors, and all benches, shelves, or other fittings used in the preparation of food, in every kitchen and in the appurtenances of every kitchen are effectively cleansed each day.
(g.) He shall not permit any decayed or unwholesome food, or any material liable to render food unwholesome or unpleasant, to remain in any cupboard or receptacle for the storage of food.
(h.) He shall ensure that milk, cream, and butter are stored apart from any other food.
(i.) He shall provide receptacles for the storage of uncooked vegetables, and shall ensure that no other food shall be stored in such receptacles.
(j.) He shall provide that all garbage and refuse matter is removed from the eating-house at least once in every twenty-four hours, and for that purpose shall ensure that all such garbage or refuse matter is placed without avoidable delay in the receptacles provided therefor, and that such receptacles are not needlessly left uncovered.
(k.) He shall ensure that every room in which food is served to the public, and all furniture in such room, is effectively cleansed each day, and that the table-cloths and other table furnishings used in such room are clean.
(l.) He shall ensure in any kitchen, and any place in which food is prepared for consumption, and any place in which the utensils used in the preparation and serving of food are cleansed, that every person working therein shall have not less than 40 superficial feet of floor-space clear of all furniture, fittings, and stored goods.
8. Every person by whose act or default a breach of any of the provisions of these regulations occurs shall be guilty of an offence, and is liable for every such offence to a fine of £10, and in the case of a continuing offence to a further fine of £5 for every day or part of a day during which such offence continues.
9. The regulations under the Health Act, 1920, made by Order in Council dated the 10th day of May, 1921, and published in the Gazette of the 19th day of the same month, shall not hereafter apply with respect to the registration of premises used as eating-houses, and the said Order in Council is hereby accordingly amended by omitting the words “or eating-houses.”

FOOTNOTES.

• Section 37 of the Health Act, 1920, reads:—

37. With respect to every factory, workroom, shop, office, warehouse, or other business-place in which persons are employed, the following provisions shall apply:—
    (a.) Sufficient privy accommodation available for the use of the persons employed therein shall be provided.