| (78 of 1999 s. 7) (Cap 132, section 56) [1 July 1963] L.N. 78 of 1963 (L.N. 63 of 1963) Cap 132X s 1 (Repealed 78 of 1999 s. 7) PART I PRELIMINARY Cap 132X s 2 (Repealed 78 of 1999 s. 7) Cap 132X s 3 Interpretation (1) In this Regulation, unless the context otherwise requires- "air conditioning plant" (空气调节机) includes any kind of mechanical ventilation system which contains a device for reducing or increasing the temperature of the air in any building or any part thereof below or above the temperature of the external air; "bottled" (瓶装) means contained in an unopened hermetically sealed bottle, tin or container; "Director" (署长) means the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene; (78 of 1999 s. 7) "dressed poultry carcass" (经处理的家禽屠体) means a poultry carcass from which the offal or feathers have been removed; (L.N. 171 of 1998) "food business" (食物业) has the meaning assigned to it in section 4; (78 of 1999 s. 7) "food premises" (食物业处所) means any premises on or from which there is carried on any food business and the expression "premises" (处所) includes a vessel and a stall; "food room" (食物室) means any room, (being, or being part of, any food premises) where any person engages in the handling of open food or in the cleaning of equipment for the purposes of a food business, but does not include a room in which the only handling of food which occurs is in the course of serving food for consumption therein; "fresh" (新鲜) in relation to beef, fish, game, meat, mutton, offal, pork, a poultry carcass, a reptile or shell fish, means beef, fish, game, meat, mutton, offal, pork, a poultry carcass, a reptile or shell fish which has not been subjected to a process of preservation; (L.N. 220 of 2001) "latrine fitment" (厕所设备) means a fitment containing a receptacle for excrement, which is removable; (L.N. 495 of 1993) "meat" (肉类) means the flesh of- (a) cattle (including buffaloes), goats, sheep and swine; and (b) horses, mules, hinnies and donkeys, if intended for human consumption; "offal" (什脏) means the internal organs or intestines of a poultry; (L.N. 171 of 1998) "open food" (未加掩盖的食物) means- (a) uncooked perishable food; and (b) food not contained in a container of such materials, and so closed, as to exclude all risk of contamination, but does not include raw vegetables and uncut fruit or any food which has to be subjected to a process of milling, refining or cooking (other than food referred to at (a) and food in the course of preparation) for the purpose of rendering it fit for human consumption; "plan" (图则) includes a sketch; "poultry carcass" (家禽屠体) means the body of a dead poultry; (L.N. 171 of 1998) "preparation" (配制) in relation to food includes manufacture and any form of cooking or other treatment or preparation for sale; "proprietor" (东主) means the owner of or the person for the time being appearing to have charge of a food business and in the case of a licensed food business the licensee thereof; "sanitary fitment" (卫生设备) includes any kind of ablution or sanitary facility; "sashimi" (刺身) means food consisting of fillets of marine fish, molluscs, crustaceans, fish roe or other seafood to be eaten in raw state; (L.N. 407 of 1996) "shell fish" (介贝类水产动物) means molluscs and crustaceans, but does not include molluscs or crustaceans in the form of sashimi or forming part of sushi, or oyster to be eaten in its raw state; (L.N. 407 of 1996; 78 of 1999 s. 7) "soil drain" (污水渠) means any pipe or gutter which receives soil matter or which receives waste from a sanitary convenience; "soil fitment" (污水设备) means a water-closet fitment, trough water-closet, urinal, slop sink, bidet or any similar fitment; (L.N. 495 of 1993) "stall" (摊档) includes any stand, marquee, mobile canteen, and any vehicle whether movable or not which is used for the sale of food; "sushi" (寿司) means food consisting of cooked and pressed rice flavoured with vinegar and garnished with other food ingredients including raw or cooked or vinegared seafood, marine fish or shellfish roe, vegetable, cooked meat or egg on top or in the middle which may or may not be wrapped with seaweed and usually served in pieces; (L.N. 407 of 1996) "vending machine" (售卖机) means a coin-operated automatic vending machine; (L.N. 212 of 1973) "water bird" (水禽) means any bird that ordinarily lives on or feeds in water which may be used for human consumption and includes ducks and geese; (L.N. 171 of 1998) "wholesale market" (批发市场) means any wholesale market established by the Director of Marketing or the Director of Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation, but does not include the Western Wholesale Food Market. (L.N. 171 of 1998; 78 of 1999 s. 7; L.N. 331 of 1999) (78 of 1999 s. 7)(2) A person shall be deemed for the purposes of this Regulation to engage in the handling of food if for the purposes of a food business he carries out or assists in the carrying out of any process or operation in the sale of food or in the preparation, transport, storage, packing, wrapping, exposure for sale, service, or delivery of food. |
