Registration of premises used in connection with the manufacture or sale of ice-cream or preserved food, etc

(1) Subject to this section and of section 16(7), no premises shall be used for– (a) the sale, or the manufacture for the purpose of sale, of ice-cream, or the storage of ice-cream intended for sale; or (b) the preparation or manufacture of sausages or potted, pressed, pickled or preserved food unless they are registered under this section for that purpose by the local authority, and a person who uses any premises in contravention of this sub-section commits an offence. (2) For the purposes of sub-section (1), the preparation of meat or fish by any process of cooking shall be deemed to be preservation thereof. (3) Subject to the following provisions of this section, the local authority shall, on the application of the occupier of, or of a person proposing to occupy, any premises, register those premises for the purposes of this section. (4) If it appears to the local authority that any premises for the registration of which application has been made under this section, or which are registered under this section, do not satisfy the requirements of section 16 or are otherwise unsuitable for use for the purpose for which they are proposed to be used or are being used, the authority shall serve on the applicant for registration or, as the case may be, on the occupier for the time being of the premises, a notice stating the place and time, not being less than seven days after the date of the service of the notice, at which it proposes to take the matter into consideration and informing him that he may attend before it, with any witnesses whom he desires to call, at the place and time mentioned, to show cause why the authority should not, for reasons specified in the notice, refuse the application or, as the case may be, cancel the registration of the premises. (5) If a person on whom a notice is served under sub-section (4) of this section fails to show cause to the satisfaction of the local authority, it may refuse the application or, as the case may be, cancel the registration of the premises, and shall forthwith give notice to him of its decision in the matter, and shall, if so required by him within fourteen days of its decision, given to him within forty-eight hours a statement of the grounds on which it was based. (6) A person aggrieved by the decision of a local authority under this section to refuse to register any premises, or to cancel the registration of any premises, may appeal to the Supreme Court in the same manner and under the same provisions as if the decision of the local authority were the decision of a district (7) Upon any change in the occupation of premises registered under this section, the incoming occupier shall, if he intends to use them for the purpose for which they are registered, forthwith give notice of the change to the local authority, which shall thereupon make any necessary alteration in its register. (8) If a person required to give a notice under sub-section (7) fails to do so, he is liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars. (9) This section shall not apply in relation to premises used primarily as a club, hotel or restaurant, and in relation to premises used as a theatre, cinematograph theatre, music hall or concert hall shall have effect as if in sub-section (1)(a), the words “the sale, or” and the words “or the storage of ice-cream intended for sale”, were omitted. 33