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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
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(3) In these regulations, where not inconsistent with the context,—
“District” means any place in which these regulations may for the time being be in force whether the same be the whole of the district within the jurisdiction of any local authority or any defined portion of such a district:
“Hairdresser’s shop” means premises in which any person carries on the business of hairdresser for payment, fee, hire, or reward:
“Local authority” means, in respect of any district being a city or borough or part thereof, the council thereof; in respect of any district being a town district not included in a county or a part of any such town district, the town board thereof; in respect of any district being a county or part thereof, the council thereof; and in respect of any district being a road district or town district in a county where the Counties Act, 1920, is suspended, or a part of any such road district or town district, the road board or town board thereof:
“Minister” means the Minister of Health.
(4) All registration certificates, records, and generally all acts of authority which originated under the Hairdressers’ (Health) Regulations, 1926, and are subsisting or in force on the coming into force of these regulations, shall endure for the purposes of these regulations as fully and effectively as if they had originated under these regulations, and accordingly shall where necessary be deemed to have so originated.
(5) These regulations shall from the coming into force thereof be in force in the districts set out in the Schedule hereto.
(6) These regulations may by subsequent Order in Council be brought into force in any other district as from a date to be specified in that behalf in such Order in Council.

2. REGISTRATION OF HAIRDRESSERS’ SHOPS.
   (1) No person shall use any premises in a district as a hairdresser’s shop unless such premises are for the time being registered under these regulations and a certificate of registration thereof has been issued.
   (2) In respect of premises in a district used as a hairdresser’s shop on the coming into force of these regulations in that district and so used continuously thereafter it shall be a sufficient compliance with the last preceding clause hereof if registration be effected and a certificate issued within six months of the time when these regulations come into force in that district.

3. APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION.
   (1) Every person desiring to use any premises as a hairdresser’s shop shall by writing signed by him or by his authorized agent apply to the local authority of the district for registration thereof under these regulations.
   (2) Every such application shall set out the full name of the applicant, the address of the premises, the nature of the applicant’s tenancy of the premises, and the full name of any manager or other person to be responsible for the management of the premises as a hairdresser’s shop.
   (3) Such further particulars shall be given as the local authority may in any case reasonably require.

4. REGISTRATION.
   (1) On receipt of an application complying with the requirements of the last preceding regulation and on being satisfied that the premises named therein are in accordance with these regulations the local authority shall register such premises as a hairdresser’s shop.
   (2) Every registration shall expire on such date in every year as the local authority may by resolution decide, and no registration shall continue in force after the date of expiry next following the date of registration except that upon registration or renewal of registration effected within one month before the date of expiry such registration or renewal shall continue in force until the date of expiry in the following year.
   (3) On the transfer of a business to fresh premises a fresh application for registration and certificate of registration shall be required.
   (4) Renewal of registration upon the expiration thereof shall from time to time be effected upon application made in like manner to an application for original registration.

5. CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION.
   (1) On registration of any premises as aforesaid the local authority shall issue to the applicant a certificate of registration setting forth the name of the applicant, the name of any manager or other person responsible for the management of the premises as a hairdresser’s shop, the address of the premises, the date of registration, and the date on which registration expires.
   (2) On every renewal of registration a fresh certificate of registration shall be issued.
   (3) Every person using any premises as a hairdresser’s shop shall at all times while the premises are open to the public keep the current certificate of registration posted conspicuously in a part of the premises to which the public have access.
   (4) On being satisfied that a certificate of registration has been lost or destroyed or become mutilated or illegible the local authority may issue a duplicate copy thereof.

6. TRANSFERS.
   (1) The registration of any premises shall cease to be of any force if there is any change in the person using the said premises as a hairdresser’s shop or if there is any change in the management thereof unless such change is endorsed on the certificate of registration by the local authority verified by the signature to such endorsement of an officer of the local authority authorized by the local authority in that behalf.
   (2) The person named in such endorsement shall thereafter be deemed to be the person to whom the certificate of registration is issued.
   (3) It shall be sufficient compliance with the last preceding clause hereof if such endorsement is made not more than seven days after the occurrence of such change.
   (4) Every person using any premises as a hairdresser’s shop shall forthwith give notice of any such change to the local authority and produce the certificate of registration thereof for endorsement as provided by this regulation.

7. CANCELLATION OF REGISTRATION.
   (1) If it appears that any premises registered as a hairdresser’s shop are not being kept or conducted in accordance with any of the provisions of these regulations, the local authority, after giving due notice in writing of its intention so to do, and of the grounds of such intention, to the person to whom a certificate of registration of such premises has been issued, and after affording a reasonable opportunity to such person of meeting the grounds stated in such notice, may, on being satisfied that such premises are, on the grounds stated as aforesaid, not being kept or conducted in accordance with any of the provisions of these regulations, cancel the registration then current or refuse to renew any registration which has terminated.
   (2) No such cancellation or refusal shall prevent the making of a fresh application by the same or any other person for the registration of the said premises.
   (3) The local authority shall give notice in writing of such cancellation or refusal to the person to whom the certificate of registration has been issued and to any manager or other person named therein or in any endorsement thereon as responsible for the management of the said premises.
   (4) The person to whom has been issued any certificate of registration so cancelled shall forthwith surrender the certificate to the local authority.

8. RECORD OF REGISTRATION.
   (1) Every local authority shall keep a record of all applications for registration of premises and all premises registered under these regulations showing the particulars to be comprised in every certificate of registration (including certificates of renewed registration) and in any endorsement made thereon and the date and reason of any cancellation of registration.
   (2) Such record shall be available at all reasonable times for inspection by any officer of the Department of Health.

9. DUTIES OF HAIRDRESSERS.
   (1) Every person who carries on the business of a hairdresser or uses any premises as a hairdresser’s shop shall provide on the premises used for that purpose a sufficient supply of hot and cold water and such appliances and materials as may be necessary to enable persons employed in or about such premises to comply with these regulations.
   (2) Every person who carries on the business of a hairdresser or uses any premises as a hairdresser’s shop shall keep the premises in which the business is carried on and the furniture and appliances used in such business at all times in a cleanly condition.
   (3) No person shall knowingly employ in any hairdresser’s shop any person who is suffering from a communicable disease.
   (4) No person shall, while to his own knowledge suffering from a communicable disease, act as a hairdresser.
   (5) Every person who carries on the business of a hairdresser, and every person employed by him as such, commits an offence