Plumtree Town (Registration and Licensed Premises) By-laws, 2025

These by-laws require registration and licensing of a wide range of premises in the Plumtree Town area, with general requirements for all food-handling premises and 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, alongside bulk water, grain buying, LPG trading, grinding mills, sand mining and abstraction, boat cruising, fish ponds and service providers.

The butchery rules are specific: no keeping of live animals or poultry and no slaughtering or dressing in the shop, and 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" excludes clean tripe, skinned and cleaned heads and feet, liver, kidneys, hearts, tongues and brains.

Bakeries and food factories are separately defined and regulated, with aerated water factories, cordial and soft drink manufacture brought within the definition of a food factory, and their own machine, furnace siting and sterilisation requirements.

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. Near-identical by-laws were made for Masvingo, Chivi, Shurugwi and Insiza in the same season.