Hong Kong Regulations

FROZEN CONFECTIONS (REGIONAL COUNCIL) BY-LAWS - BYLAW 17

Application for licence

Caution: This is a past version. See the current version here.

(1) Every application for such a licence shall be made in writing to the
Council and, subject to paragraph (2), shall be accompanied by 3 copies of a
plan, as nearly as may be to scale, of the whole of that part of any premises
in which the applicant intends to manufacture any frozen confection, and such
plan shall include particulars of the following- (10 of 1986 s.32(2))

(a) sanitary fitments and ablution facilities;

   (b)  built in clothing lockers or cloakrooms, passageways or open spaces
        (if any);

   (c)  rooms or other spaces (if any) for the exclusive use of staff or
        employees;

   (d)  all means of exit, entry and internal communication;

   (e)  all windows or ducts providing ventilation or, where any mechanical
        means of ventilation is provided, such means;

   (f)  the siting of all furniture and fittings of a substantial and
        permanent nature, including heat-treatment plant, cleansing,
        refrigeration or cooling equipment, sterilization machinery or storage
        and packing equipment, and any fixed sideboards, washbasins or sinks,
        water tanks or other like articles;

   (g)  means of refuse storage or disposal; and

   (h)  the drainage system, including all inlets into the system. (10 of 1986
        s. 32(2))

(2) In the case of any premises in which the only process of manufacture to be
carried on is the freezing or part freezing of already prepared ingredients of
frozen confections and the insertion thereof into containers at such premises
for the purpose of sale for immediate consumption, it shall be sufficient
compliance with paragraph (1) if the plan shows the siting, in relation to
neighbouring articles of furniture, fittings or equipment, of the machinery
used for such freezing or part freezing or such insertion or wrapping.

(3) Every copy of such plan, or any modification thereof, that is approved by
the Council shall be endorsed to that effect, and 1 copy shall be returned to
the applicant and the remaining 2 copies shall be retained by the Council. (10
of 1986 s. 32(2))