Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) No person shall, without or otherwise than in conformity with the terms and conditions of a licence granted or renewed by the executive authority in such manner as may be provided in this behalf, -- (a) keep within the local area any lodging house, eating house, tea shop, coffee house, café, restaurant, refreshment room or any place or mobile structure for the consumption of any food or drink, or for the sale, preparation of any food or drink; or (b) slaughter within the local area except in a pubic or a licensed slaughter house any cattle, horse, sheep, goat or pig for sale as food or skin or cut up in carcass or dry or permit to be dried any skin in such manner as to cause a nuisance; or (c) carry on within the local area the trade of a butcher, fishmonger or poulterer; or (d) use any place within the local area for the sale of flesh or fish intended for human food; or (e) keep or open a dairy; or (f) open or run a market: Provided that the local authority may authorise a person to slaughter without licence any animal for the purpose of a religious ceremony: Provided further that no licence shall be required for a place used for the selling or storing for sale of preserved flesh or fish contained in air-tight or hermetically sealed receptacles: Provided also that no licence shall be required for any place included in a public market licensed under the law governing the local authority. (2) The licence or renewal of the licence granted under sub-section (1) shall expire at the end of the year for which it is granted unless the executive authority, acting on the advice of the Health Officer, considers for special reasons that it should expire at an earlier date, in which case such earlier date shall be specified in the licence as the date of expiry of the licence or renewal of licence. (3) Where the executive authority is at any time, of opinion that the building, mobile van, vehicle or place in respect of which a licence is granted or renewed under sub-section (1) is kept in contravention of any of the terms or conditions of the licence or of the provisions of the rules made under this Act, he may, without prejudice to any other action, which may be taken in respect of such contravention, cancel or suspend such licence after giving the holder of the licence a reasonable opportunity of showing cause against the proposed cancellation or suspension. 67 (4) If the executive authority refuses to grant or renew, or cancels or suspends, a licence under this section, he shall deliver to the applicant a statement in writing of the grounds on which his application is refused or his licence is cancelled or suspended. (5) Any person aggrieved by the refusal to grant or renew, or by the cancellation or suspension of, a licence by an executive authority under this section, may appeal to the local authority and the appeal shall be disposed of in accordance with the rules prescribed by the Government. Prohibition of sale of unsound food