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Register of employees

17A. Belize City Sale Of Food By-Laws, r. 3 · Revised Edition 2020

No person shall be employed in a restaurant, refreshment shop, eating house or aerated waters manufactory unless he is registered in the manner hereinafter provided– (a) Every Local Authority shall keep a register known as the Restaurants Register wherein shall be registered all persons employed in restaurants, refreshment shops, eating houses or aerated waters manufactories; (b) No person shall be registered unless he shall first produce a certificate signed by the Local Authority to the effect that he is a fit and proper person to be employed in a restaurant, refreshment shop, eating house or aerated waters manufactory; (c) Such certificate shall bear a date not more than three days earlier than the date of its production by the person to whom it relates; (d) Every person employed in a restaurant, refreshment shop, eating house or aerated water manufactory, shall, after an interval not exceeding three months from the date of the certificate which he shall have last produced, produce to the Local Authority a further certificate in the same form as that required by paragraph (b) of this by-law bearing date not more than three days earlier than that of its production to the Local Authority; (e) The Local Authority shall cause to be removed from the Restaurants Register the name of any person who shall not within the preceding Public Health 103 three months have produced the required certificate; (f) The occupier of any restaurant, refreshment shop, eating house or aerated waters manufactory shall exhibit in a prominent position in such restaurant, refreshment shop, eating house or aerated waters manufactory 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 by- law; (g) Every person who is employed or employs or causes any other person to be employed in a restaurant, refreshment shop, eating house or aerated waters manufactory without being registered or without the proper certificate commits an offence under this by-law; (h) Any person who commits an offence under this by-law is liable on conviction to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars.
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