Licence and requirements for butcher

(1) Any person applying for a licence as a butcher shall produce to the Town Administrator a certificate from a medical officer of health to the effect that he has demonstrated his ability to be a butcher and on payment of one dollar the Town Administrator shall grant such licence to the applicant. (2) Each licensed butcher or his assistant shall be possessed of the requisite slaughtering knives, such knives to be passed by the Medical Officer of Health and always kept sharp and in a sanitary state. (3) Every butcher and his assistant shall be licensed annually and before being licensed each shall produce a certificate from a registered medical practitioner that he is in a fit state of good health and free from any contagious or infectious disease and a fit person to be licensed as a butcher. (4) Notwithstanding the possession of such a certificate, the Medical Officer of Health may if he considers it necessary call upon either such butcher or assistant to be examined at any time. (5) Every person working as a butcher or butcher’s assistant when handling meat shall be dressed in a clean butcher’s coat, apron and a suitable cap, such cap, coat and apron to be approved by the Medical Officer of Health. Town Councils 215