Shurugwi Town Council (Registration and Licensed Premises) By-laws, 2025
Shurugwi now licenses every food and service premises — cafés, butcheries, bakeries, salons, laundries, stables, grinding mills, LPG traders, sand miners, boat cruises and fish ponds — with detailed hygiene and construction requirements for each.
These by-laws require registration and licensing of a long list of premises in the Shurugwi Town Council area, and set the standards each must meet.
General requirements apply to all food-handling premises, with additional requirements for particular trades: 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.
The by-laws also license newer trades and activities: bulk water supply, grain buying, liquefied petroleum gas trading, grinding mills, sand mining, sand abstraction, boat cruising, fish ponds and service providers generally.
The trade-specific standards are detailed. A bakery or food factory, for example, must use approved dough-making machines, site any boiler or oven furnace opening outside the food-handling room and at least three metres from its doors and windows, must not communicate directly with premises used for non-food processes, and must provide approved facilities for washing and sterilising bottles, syphons and other containers — though the officer of health may relax the furnace siting rule for premises that were already bakeries before the fixed date, where compliance is impracticable and no health danger arises.
Licences and registration certificates must be displayed together with the by-laws themselves.
The extract available here was truncated before the fee and penalty schedules, so the licence fees and fines should be read in the instrument itself.
What changed
- Registration and licensing required for all food-handling and listed service premises
- Trade-specific construction and hygiene standards for cafés, butcheries, bakeries, salons, laundries and stables
- Bulk water, grain buying, LPG trading, grinding mills, sand mining and abstraction, boat cruising and fish ponds brought into the licensing net
- Bakeries and food factories must meet machine, furnace siting and sterilisation requirements, with limited relaxation for older premises
- Licences, registration certificates and the by-laws must be displayed on the premises
Who this affects
- Restaurants, takeaways, butcheries and bakeries in Shurugwi
- Salons, laundries and grinding mills
- LPG traders and bulk water suppliers
- Sand miners and boat cruise operators
- Council environmental health officers
Plain-language summary — not legal advice. Always read the full instrument.