AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

AMENDMENTS OF PUBLIC HEALTH (EATING HOUSES) REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 8 of 1969

Regulation 18 (1) of the Public Health (Eating Houses) Regulations provides that the proprietor of an eating house shall not allow any dog in any dining room or kitchen appurtenant thereto.  The amendment eases that restriction by providing that it is not an offence for the proprietor of an eating house to allow a guide dog accompanying a blind person to be in the dining room.  The effect of the amendment is that the proprietor may exercise discretion as to whether or not he will permit guide dogs in his dining room.

The opportunity has been taken to convert monetary references in the Regulations to their decimal currency equivalents.