### Dairies Regulations 《奶場規例》

8. Power of Director to issue licence to maintain dairy, etc.
(1) Upon application in a form specified by the Director, the Director may grant a licence to any person to maintain a dairy in the premises in respect of which it is granted and may renew such licence. (L.N. 407 of 1990)
(2) A licence granted or renewed under paragraph (1) shall be valid for a period of 12 months beginning on the date it is granted or renewed, as the case may be. (L.N. 407 of 1990)
(3) The fee for a licence shall be—
(a) $6,880; or (L.N. 46 of 1995; L.N. 1 of 2001)
(b) $172 for each cow or buffalo over the age of 12 months which is to be or is kept in the dairy on the date the licence is first granted or renewed, as the case may be, (L.N. 46 of 1995; L.N. 1 of 2001)

whichever is the greater. (L.N. 407 of 1990; L.N. 207 of 1996; L.N. 519 of 1997)
(4) (Repealed 407 of 1990)(5) Any such licence and any renewal thereof shall be subject to such terms and conditions as the Director may determine and shall not be transferable.
(6) Every such licence and any renewal thereof shall specify the premises at which the dairy may be maintained.

9. Application for licence to be accompanied by plan of premises, etc.
(1) Every application for the grant of any such licence shall be accompanied by 2 copies of a plan, as nearly as may be to scale, of the premises at which it is proposed to maintain the dairy. (E.R. 2 of 2019)
(2) Every such plan shall also show the following—
(a) the situation of the premises at which it is proposed to maintain the dairy; and
(b) the situation, in relation to such premises, of any premises adjacent thereto.
(3) Both copies of every such plan which is approved by the Director shall be endorsed to that effect by him and one of such copies shall be returned to the applicant and the other retained by the Director.
(4) Every such application shall also be accompanied by particulars of the method for the disposal of effluent from such premises.

### Dairies Regulations 《奶場規例》

10. Special grounds for refusal to grant or renew licence
(1) Without prejudice to the discretion of the Director with respect to the refusal of the grant or renewal of any such licence, no such licence shall, save as provided in paragraph (2), be granted or renewed unless the Director is satisfied—
(a) that a plan of the premises at which the applicant or the licensee, as the case may be, proposes to maintain or is maintaining the dairy has been approved under regulation 9 and that the premises conform thereto, or, in the case of the renewal of a licence where such premises have been altered or added to, that the alteration or addition has been made in accordance with regulation 11;
(b) that such premises are in accordance with the provisions of regulation 12; and
(c) as to the method for the disposal of effluent from any building or other place in which cattle are kept or which is a milk room.
(2) The Director may grant or renew any such licence notwithstanding that he is not satisfied as to any one or more or all of the matters specified in subparagraph (b) or (c) of paragraph (1) if a health officer, other than a veterinary officer or a person performing the duties of a veterinary officer, is satisfied that to do so will not be to the prejudice of the public health. (E.R. 2 of 2019)

11. Prohibition of alteration, etc. of premises at which dairy is maintained
(1) Where a plan of any premises at which it is proposed to maintain a dairy has been approved under regulation 9, no person shall thereafter, save with the permission in writing of the Director, make—
(a) any alteration or addition to such premises which results in a deviation in a material particular from the plan of such premises approved, for the time being, by the Director; or
(b) any material alteration in respect of any of the matters in respect of which provision is made in regulation 12.
(2) The Director may refuse to give his permission for the making of any such alterations or additions as are specified in subparagraph (a) of paragraph (1) until he has received and approved a plan showing the same. (E.R. 2 of 2019)

### Dairies Regulations 《奶場規例》

12. Provisions as to construction of premises at which dairy is maintained, etc.
(1) Every building or other place in which cattle are kept in any dairy or which is a milk room shall be adequately lighted and ventilated.
(2) The floor of every such building or other place shall be paved with a layer of not less than 150 millimetres of lime-concrete or not less than 75 millimetres of cement-concrete composed of 1 part of cement, 3 parts of sand and 5 parts of stone broken to pass through a 25 millimetres ring. (E.R. 2 of 2019)
(3) The surface of every such floor shall be rendered and maintained smooth and impervious with a layer of asphalt or cement mortar not less than 12 millimetres in thickness or with such other material of such nature and thickness as the Director may approve.
(4) The following provisions shall apply to every building or other place in which cattle are kept in any dairy—
(a) the height of such building or place, at its lowest part, shall be not less than 3.6 metres; and
(b) the floor thereof shall—
(i) be raised not less than 200 millimetres above the level of the ground surrounding such building or place;
(ii) have a slope of not less than 1 in 60; and (E.R. 2 of 2019)
(iii) communicate directly, by means of an independent drain, constructed to the satisfaction of the Director, with a covered cement catch-pit.
(5) (a) In every such building or other place in which cattle are kept, every animal shall have—
(i) not less than 3 square metres of floor space; and
(ii) not less than 10 cubic metres of air space.
(b) For the purposes of this paragraph, two calves, being less than 12 months of age, shall be deemed to be one animal. (E.R. 2 of 2019)
(6) No water closet, dry closet, earth closet or urinal shall be within, or communicate directly with, any building or other place in which cattle are kept in any dairy or which is a milk room.
(L.N. 60 of 1981)

13. Removal of contents of catch-pit
The contents of every catch-pit provided in any dairy in accordance with the provisions of sub-subparagraph (iii) of subparagraph (b) of paragraph (4) of regulation 12 shall be removed therefrom not less than once in every 24 hours.
(E.R. 2 of 2019)