Insiza Rural District Council (Registration and Licensed Premises) By-laws, 2025

These by-laws require registration and licensing of a wide range of premises in the Insiza Rural District Council area, and set the standards for each: general requirements for all food-handling premises, then specific rules for cafés, restaurants, tea-rooms, hotels, boarding houses and lodging rooms; butchers and fishmongers; bakeries and food factories; food purveyors and caterers; barbers and hairdressers; laundries, launderettes and laundry depots; and stables and premises keeping equine animals. Bulk water, grain buying, LPG trading, grinding mills, sand mining and abstraction, boat cruising, fish ponds and service providers are also brought into the licensing net.

The butchery requirements are exacting: a refrigerated room of at least six cubic metres fitted with hanging rails and shelving or racks of non-corrodible material (or adequate cold storage to the health officer's satisfaction for fishmongers); serving counters of approved impervious material on a solid pedestal or built to allow a clear view behind; and enough metal or approved containers for meat and fish waste. A butcher may not render fat or cook so as to cause a nuisance, may not use sawdust on the floor, and may not keep live animals or poultry or slaughter or dress animals in the shop.

Meat may only be conveyed in a vehicle built to the health officer's requirements, used solely for meat, kept thoroughly clean, protected from flies, dust and dirt, and fitted with a separate clean compartment for offal — with limited relaxation where meat is in approved wrapping. "Offal" is defined to exclude clean tripe, skinned and cleaned heads and feet, liver, kidneys, hearts, tongues and brains.

Bakeries and food factories face their own machine, furnace siting and sterilisation requirements. The extract available here was truncated before the fee and penalty schedules, so those amounts should be read in the instrument itself.