The Government shall have power to make rules—
(a) for fixing the number of persons who may be received into a lodging house and for the separate accommodation of the sexes therein;
(b) for promoting cleanliness and ventilation in lodging houses and requiring the walls and ceilings thereof to be lime-washed or treated with some other suitable preparation at specified intervals;
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(c) with respect to the taking of precautions when any case of infectious disease occurs in a lodging house; and (d} generally for the well-ordering of the lodging houses.
112. Notice to be affixed outside lodging house—(1) The keeper of a lodging house shall, if so required by the executive authority, affix and keep affixed and undefaced and legible, a notice with the words “registered lodging house’ in some conspicuous place on the outside of the house.
(2) The keeper of a lodging house and every other person having the care or taking part in the management thereof shall at all times allow the executive authority, the Health Officer or any other person authorised by the executive authority or Health Officer in this behalf, to have free access to all parts of the house.
113. Cancellation of registration by court— When the registered keeper of a lodging house is convicted of any offence under this Chapter or under Section 62 or a rule or bye-law applicable to him made under this Act, the Court by which he is convicted may cancel his registration as a lodging house-keeper and may order that he be disqualified for such period as the court thinks fit for being again registered as such keeper.
CHAPTER XII FOOD CONTROL
114. Prohibition of sale of unsound food—(1) No person shall—
(a) sell, expose or hawk about for sale, or keep, store or prepare for sale, any anima] intended for human consumption which is diseased, or the flesh of any animal which has died on account of natural causes;
or
(b) sell, expose or hawk about for sale, or keep, store, manufacture or prepare for sale, any food or drug intended for human consumption which is unfit for such purpose or 1s unwholesome.
(2) In any prosecution under sub-section (1), the court shall, unless and until the contrary is proved, presume—
(a) that any animal found in the possession of a person who is in the habit of keeping animals of that class for sale for human consumption has been kept by such person for sale; and 34 1271 B Il 114
(b) that any food or drug found in the possession of a person who is in the habit of keeping, storing, manufacturing or preparing such food or drug for sale for human consumption, has been kept, stored, manufactured or prepared by such person for sale.
115. Punishment for contravening provisions of Section 114 through others——(1) Any person who does any of the acts, mentioned in sub-section (1) of Section 114 or in clauses
(a) to (e) of sub-section (1) of Section 10 of the Travancore Prevention of Adulteration Act, 1124, or clauses (a) to (d) of sub-section (1) of Section 4 of the Cochin Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, XIV of 1109 in any area to which the said Acts have been extended, through others employed by him, whether the latter be adults or children, shall be liable to punishment for such act as if he had himself done the same.
(2) If a child under seven years of age does any of the acts aforesaid, the employer of the child, or the parent or other persons having the care and custody of the child, as the case may be, shall be lable to punishment for such act as if he had himself done the same.