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Penalty for using insanitary premises

Bakehouses Regulations, reg. 7 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) Where a magistrate is satisfied on prosecution by a health officer that any room or place used as a bakehouse is in such a state as to be, on sanitary grounds, unfit for use or occupation as a bakehouse, the occupier of the bakehouse shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars and on a second and subsequent conviction to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars. (2) The magistrate in addition to or instead of inflicting the fine, may order means to be adopted by the occupier, within the time named in the order, for the purpose of removing the ground of complaint. Public Health 97 (3) The magistrate may on application enlarge the time so named; but if, after the expiration of the time so originally named or enlarged by subsequent order, the order is not obeyed, the occupier shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding five dollars for every day on which the order has not been obeyed.
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Penalty for using insanitary premises — Cap. 40s17 s. 7 · Belize Law