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Chapter: | 132X
 | Title: | FOOD BUSINESS REGULATION | Gazette Number: | L.N. 169 of 2006 |
| Section: | 3 | Heading: | Interpretation | Version Date: | 18/08/2006 |
(1) In this Regulation, unless the context otherwise requires-
"air conditioning plant" (空氣調節機) 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" (瓶裝) means contained in an unopened hermetically sealed bottle, tin or container;
"Director" (署長) means the Director of Food and Environmental Hygiene; (78 of 1999 s. 7)
"dressed poultry carcass" (經處理的家禽屠體) means a poultry carcass from which the offal or feathers have been removed; (L.N. 171 of 1998)
"food business" (食物業) has the meaning assigned to it in section 4; (78 of 1999 s. 7)
"food premises" (食物業處所) means any premises on or from which there is carried on any food business and the expression "premises" (處所) 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" (新鮮) 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" (廁所設備) means a fitment containing a receptacle for excrement, which is removable; (L.N. 495 of 1993)
"meat" (肉類) means the flesh of-
- (a) cattle (including buffaloes), goats, sheep and swine; and
(b) horses, mules, hinnies and donkeys, if intended for human consumption;
"open food" (未加掩蓋的食物) 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,
"poultry carcass" (家禽屠體) means the body of a dead poultry; (L.N. 171 of 1998)
"pre-packaged" (經預先包裝), in relation to any chilled beef, mutton or pork, means completely enclosed in a package in such a way that-
- (a) the contents of the package cannot be altered without opening the package or changing the packaging; and
(b) the chilled beef, mutton or pork is ready for sale as a single food item; (L.N. 169 of 2006)
"proprietor" (東主) 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" (衞生設備) 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" (介貝類水產動物) 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" (污水設備) means a water-closet fitment, trough water-closet, urinal, slop sink, bidet or any similar fitment; (L.N. 495 of 1993)
"stall" (攤檔) includes any stand, marquee, mobile canteen, and any vehicle whether movable or not which is used for the sale of food;
"sushi" (壽司) 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" (售賣機) 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" (批發市場) 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)
(3) For the purposes of this Regulation, the supply of food, otherwise than by sale at, in or from any place where food is supplied in the course of a business, shall be deemed to be a sale of that food, and references to purchasing and purchasers shall be construed accordingly; and where in connection with any business in the course of which food is supplied the place where food is served to the customers is different from the place where the food is prepared, both those places shall be deemed to be places in which food is sold.
(4) In determining for the purposes of this Regulation whether any matter involves risk of contamination to any food, regard shall be had to the extent to which contamination in the respect in question is immaterial because of-
- (a) the nature of the food; or
(b) the manner in which the food is packed; or
(c) any process to which the food is to be subjected before sale to the consumer, being a process to which food of that nature is normally so subjected.