Grand Port Savanne District Council (Fair) Regulations 1997

GN No. 96 of 1997


Regulations made by the Grand Port District Council under sections 51, 141 and 112 of the Local Government Act

Abstract

The fair shall be held on such day and as such times and places as may be determined by the District Council.

These shall be provided between any two rows of spaces or stalls in the fair a free passage of not less than 2 mts wide to enable the free movement of customers and other users of such passage.

No fresh or frozen fish or meat or crustacea shall be sold in the fair.

Locally grown mushrooms, shall not be introduced into the fair. Any such mushrooms, when introduced, shall be forfeited and destroyed and the person retailer in whose possession they shall be found shall be guilty of a breach of these regulations.

It shall not be lawful for any seller occupying a stall in the fair to leave such stall for the purpose of advertising his goods by gestures cry or demonstration or to stop any person in any manner whatever for the purpose of inducing such persons to examine or buy his goods.

It shall not be lawful for any person

(a) to spit or beg in a fair
(b) to create any disturbance or to make use of any foul,
injurious or abusive language in such fair
(c) to loiter in the fair.

(1) No person suffering from any contagious or communicable disease shall be admitted to fair or shall be allowed to act as seller, agent, assistant or servant to any such seller in such fair. All occupiers of stalls shall be in possession of a valid medical certificate issued by the Sanitary Authority to show that he is free from communicable diseases.
(2) A person who is engaged in the handling of food shall while so engaged (a) keep clean all parts of his person which are liable to come into contact with the food, (b) keep clean all parts of his clothing or over clothing which are liable to come into contact with food, (c) keep out any abrasion or any exposed part of his person covered with a suitable waterproof dressing, (d) as soon as a person engaged in the handling of food becomes aware that he is suffering from or is the carrier of typhoid, paratyphoid, or any salmonella infection or dysentry, or any staphylococcal infection likely to cause food poisoning he shall immediately notify the Sanitary Authority.

The District Council may direct the sale by competitive tender or by private contract under such conditions and for a period not exceeding three years of the right to occupy any stall. The conditions shall be laid down in accordance with Schedule C to these

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