Restriction as to employment

(1) No person shall be employed in a bakehouse unless he is registered in the manner hereinafter provided. (2) The Medical Officer of Health of each district shall keep a register known as the “Bakehouse Employees Register” wherein shall be registered all persons employed in bakehouses. (3) No person shall be registered unless he shall first produce a medical certificate signed by a Government medical officer or registered medical practitioner to the effect that he is physically fit to be employed in a bakehouse. (4) Such medical certificate shall bear a date not more than three days earlier than the date of its production by the person to whom it relates. (5) Every person employed in a bakehouse shall after an interval not exceeding three months from the date of the certificate which he shall have last produced, produce to the Medical Officer of Health a further certificate in the same form as that required by paragraph (3) of this regulation bearing date not more than three days earlier than that of its production. (6) The Medical Officer of Health shall cause to be removed forthwith from the Bakehouse Employees Register the name of any person who shall not within the preceding three months have produced the required medical certificate. Public Health 95 (7) The occupier of any bakehouse shall exhibit in a prominent position in such bakehouse a statement showing the names, addresses and date of registration of all persons employed therein and if he fails to state or states incorrectly any matter required to be stated therein he commits an offence under this regulation. (8) Every person who is employed or employs or causes any other person to be employed in a bakehouse without being registered or without obtaining the proper medical certificates commits an offence under this regulation. (9) Any person who commits an offence under this regulation is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.