Hong Kong Regulations

FOOD BUSINESS REGULATION - SECT 24

Restriction on employment of persons likely to spread diseases

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) No person engaged in any food business who is suffering from a discharging
wound or sore on any exposed part of the body, or from a discharge of the ear
or from attacks of diarrhoea or vomiting or from a sore throat shall take any
part in the handling of open food: Provided that a health officer may issue a
certificate in writing to such person exempting him from this subsection in
any case in which such health officer is satisfied that no danger to the
public health is involved.

(2) Any person engaged in the course of any food business in any food room or
in any room in which food is served or in the handling of open food shall, if
so required in writing by a health officer, submit himself to medical
examination at such time and place as such health officer shall direct and if,
after medical examination, a health officer is satisfied that such person is
suffering from any communicable disease, or is likely to communicate to any
other person any communicable disease, such health officer may notify such
person in writing to that effect and thereafter such person shall forthwith
cease to work or take part in the same or any other food business.

(3) A notification made under subsection (2) shall remain effective until
cancelled by a further notification by a health officer declaring such first
mentioned notification to be cancelled.

(4) Subject to the proviso to subsection (1), no person shall cause, suffer or
permit any other person whom he knows or has reason to believe to be suffering
from any of the complaints mentioned in subsection

(1) to take any part in the handling of open food in any food business; and no
person shall cause or suffer or permit any other person in respect of whom he
knows or has reason to believe a notification made under subsection (2) is
effective to be engaged in the course of any food  business in any food room
or in any room in which food is served or in the handling of any open food.

(78 of 1999 s. 7)