Public Health (Laundries, Dry Cleaning Establishments and Dye Works) Regulations (ACT)
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY.
Regulations 1953. No. 13.
Regulations under the Public Health
Ordinance 1928-1951.*
| I A T H O L T O W N L E Y , Minister of State for Social Services, acting | , | for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Health, in pursuance |
of the powers conferred by the Public Health Ordinance 1928-1951,
' j ^ e b y make the following Regulations.
Dated this sixteenth day of September, 1953.
| *•<* | A T H O L | T O W N L E Y |
for and on behalf of the Minister of State for Health.
PUBLIC H E A L T H ( L A U N D R I E S , D R Y C L E A N I N G
| E S T A B L I S H M E N T S | A N D | D Y E | W O R K S ) | R E G U L A T I O N S . |
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Public Health (Laundries, citation.
Dry Cleaning Establishments and Dye Works) Regulations.
2. The Public 1 Lealth (Laundries, Cleaning Establishments and Eepeai.
Dye Works) Regulations published in the Gazette on the thirteenth
•day of November, 1930, are repealed.
3. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears— Definitions. " chemical substance" means a compound, solvent, dye, soap, soap powder, detergent or other substance capable of being- used in laundering, dry cleaning or dyeing;
" infectious disease" has the same meaning as in the Public
Health (Infectious and Notifiable Diseases) Regulations
| / V | and includes a notifiable disease which, in pursuance of |
| ' " ' | those Regulations, is deemed to be an infectious disease; |
" l a u n d r y " ' means an establishment at which articles are laundered for reward;
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" propr ie tor" means the person having the management or control of a laundry, dry cleaning establishment or dye works.
4. A proprietor shall not use premises for the purposes of a laundry, premises used
| dry cleaning establishment, or dye works, unless— | drVcTeanniK |
(a) the premises are maintained in a clean, serviceable and o r d y e l n g ' sanitary condition;
(b) the floors of the premises are of an impervious material and are so drained as to prevent an accumulation of water or other liquid on the floors;
((.•) the internal walls of the premises are tiled, or so rendered
and painted as to provide an easily cleaned surface;
(d) a supply of clean water under pressure and hand basins are
provided for the use of persons employed in the premises:
•Notified in flic Commonwealth Gazette on 8th October, 1953. (e) the sanitary conveniences at the premises are not situated near to a room or place where laundering, dry cleaning or dyeing is carried out ; and
( / ) the waste from any laundering, dry cleaning or dyeing is
discharged into drains.
Duties of 5. A proprietor who uses premises for the purposes of a laundry,
propne or. ^ ^ c ] e a n j n g establishment or dye works— (a) shall not allow water which has been soiled or contaminated, whether by previous use in those premises or otherwise, to be used for laundering, dry cleaning or dyeing in >
those premises; 4*'
(b) shall not allow cement surfaces or surfaces which are riot smooth and easily cleaned to be used in those premises for the reception of articles received for laundering, dry**
cleaning or dyeing or in the laundering, dry cleaning
or dyeing of articles so received;
(c) shall maintain chemical substances used in those premises
in laundering, dry cleaning or dyeing in a clean condition ;
(d) shall clean or have cleaned all receptacles and appliances
used in laundering, dry cleaning or dyeing immediatelyafter each use of those receptacles and appliances; and
(e) shall provide soap and separate clean towels for the use
of each employee.
Requirement* 6. The Medical Officer of Health may require a proprietor who use.s Offlcerof1
premises for the purposes of a laundry, dry cleaning establishment or (a) to take such safeguards for the health of persons employed in those premises or the health of customers of the laundry, dry cleaning establishment or dye works as are specified in the notice;
Health to be dye works— complied with* (&) to have all receptacles and appliances used in the premise
in connexion with laundering, dry cleaning or dye>|cleaned by such methods as are specified in the notice;
(c) to make such provision with respect to the ventilation and lighting of the premises as is specified in the notice; (d) to make such provision with respect to drainage as i.s
specified in the notice; and . ^
(e) to have the internal walls of the premises repainted • W0
required by the notice.
7. A proprietor who uses premises as a laundry at which equipment
laundries. is made available for the laundering of articles by his customers shall,
in addition to the other requirements of these Eegulations—(a) provide an adequate supply of clean water maintained at a
temperature of not less than one hundred and seventy
degrees Fahrenhei t ;
(b) have each washing machine efficiently cleaned immediately
after each use; and
(c) provide a supply of clean water under pressure and hand
basins for use by persons using the laundry.
cleaning establishment or dye works for laundering, dry cleaning or a ldc*' 8.—(1.) A person shall not send to, or deliver at, a laundry, dry contaminated dyeing—
(a ) articles contaminated by human or animal excreta, blood or
other discharge; or
(b) articles which have been in contact with a person whom that first-mentioned person knows to be suffering from an infectious disease,
except to, or at, a laundry, dry cleaning establishment or dye works, as the case may be, where a separate room and equipment for the treatment
, of those articles are provided, and unless the articles are clearly marked ^^fc>r labelled with the word " Contaminated " and are so wrapped that
they are not exposed to the air.
(2.) A person shall not launder a t a laundry at which equipment
is made available by the proprietor for the laundering of articles by the
• proprietor's customers—
(a) articles contaminated by human or animal excreta, blood or
other discharge; or
(b) articles which have been in contact with a person whom that first-mentioned person knows to be suffering from an infectious disease,
except at a laundry where a separate room and equipment for the
treatment of those articles are provided.
(3.) A proprietor shall not receive for laundering, dry cleaning or
dyeing—
(a ) articles contaminated by human or animal excreta, blood or
other discharge;
(b) articles which have been in contact with a person whom the proprietor knows to be suffering from an infectious disease; or
(c) articles marked or labelled with the word *" Contaminated "
in accordance with sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation,
| ^ | l > unless a separate room and equipment are provided for the treatment |
of those articles.
(4.) The proprietor of a laundry at which equipment is made avail-
able for the laundering of articles by his customers shall not allow a customer to launder in that laundry—
| m | (a) articles contaminated by human or animal excreta, blood or |
| ™ | other discharge; or |
(b) articles which have been in contact with a person whom the proprietor knows to be suffering from an infectious disease,
unless a separate room and equipment are provided for the treatment
of those articles.
9. The Medical Officer of Health may require a proprietor who Requirements
provides a separate room and equipment for the treatment of articles omcer of
referred to in the last preceding regulation to comply with directions JJettmentof
as to the manner in which those articles are to be treated and the manner contaminated
in which the equipment used for the treatment of those articles is to
be cleaned.
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| Treatment of | 10.—(1.) A proprietor shall not launder, dry clean or dye articles referred to in sub-regulation (3.) of regulation 8 of these Eegulations except in the separate room and with the separate equipment provided for that purpose and in accordance with the requirements of the Medical Officer of Health. | ||
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| (2.) A proprietor shall ensure that the laundering in his laundry by a customer of articles referred to in sub-regulation (2.) or (4.) of regulation 8 of these Eegulations is carried out in the separate room and with the separate equipment provided for that purpose and in accordance with the requirements of the Medical Officer of Health. | |||
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| Requirements | 11. A requirement of the Medical Officer of Health under regulation _ / | ||
| Officer of | 6 or regulation 9 of these Eegulations shall be made by notice i i > ^ ' | ||
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| notified | writing served on the proprietor. | ||
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| Inspection. |
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| Offences. | 13. A person shall not contravene or fail to comply with a provision of these Eegulations which is applicable to him. |
| Penal ty : Twenty pounds and, where the offence is a continuing offence, a penalty not exceeding Five pounds for every day during which the offence continues, but so that the total penalty shall not exceed One hundred pounds. |
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* By Authority: L. F. JOHNSTON, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
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