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Regulations as to offensive business
Cap. 40, s. 131 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) The Director of Health Services may, with the approval of the Minister, make regulations for regulating the conduct of any such business specified in section 129 of this Act and the structure of the premises on which any such business is being carried on, and the mode in which application is to be made for an establishment order.
(2) Regulations under this section may empower a court of summary jurisdiction by order to deprive any person, either temporarily or permanently, of the right of carrying on any business to which the regulations relate as a punishment for contravening the regulations, and any person disobeying such an order is guilty of an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars for every day during which the disobedience continues.
(3) A medical officer of health may enter any premises at any hour by day, or at any hour when business is in progress,
or is usually carried on, in the premises, for the purpose of 72 ascertaining whether there is any contravention therein of any regulations made under this section.
(4) Nothing in this section shall require any consent to the slaughter of cattle at any slaughter-house which is maintained at public expense.
Amended by: 40 of 1963
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