THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 11TH JULY, 1896.
S. No person shall sell any compound article of food or compounded drug which is not composed of ingredients in accordance with the demand of the purchaser, under a penalty, upon summary conviction before a Magistrate, not exceeding two hundred dollars and in default of pay- ment thereof imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months with or without hard labour.
9. Provided that no person shall be guilty of any such offence as aforesaid in respect of the sale of an article of food or a drug mixed with any matter or ingredient not injurious to health, and not intended to fraudulently increase its bulk, weight, or measure, or conceal its in ferior quality, if at the time of delivering such article or drug he shall supply to the person receiving the same a notice, by a label distinctly and legibly written or printed on or with the article or drug, to the effect that the same is mixed.
10. No person shall, with the intent that the same may be sold in its altered state without notice, abstract from an article of food any part of it so as to affect injuriously its quality, substance, or nature, and no person shall self any article so altered without making disclosure of the altera- tion, under a penalty in each case, upon summary con- viction before a Magistrate, of two hundred dollars and in default of payment of the said penalty imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months with or without hard labour. Any person selling "skimmed milk to a pur- chaser demanding milk shall be liable to the same penalty.
11. Any purchaser or seller of an article of food or of a drug shall be entitled, upon payment of the sum of five dollars to the Government analyst or to any analyst appointed by the Governor for the purposes of this Ordinance, to have such article analyzed by such analyst, and to receive from him a certificate of the result of his analysis.
or
12. Any medical officer of health, inspector of nuisances,
inspector of weights and measures, or any inspector of a market, or any police constable may, at the cost of the Government, procure any sample of food or drugs, and, if he suspect the same to have been sold to him contrary to any provision of this Ordinance, shall submit the same to be analysed by the Government analyst or by some analyst appointed by the Governor for the purposes of this Ordi- nance, and such analyst shall, upon receiving payment as is provided in the last section, with all convenient speed analyse the same, and shall give a certificate to such officer, wherein he shall specify the result of the analysis.
13. Any person purchasing any article with the intention of submitting the same to analysis shall, after the purchase shall have been completed, forthwith notify to the seller or his agent selling the article his intention to have the same analysed by the Government analyst or by some other analyst appointed by the Governor for the purposes of this Ordinance, and shall offer to divide the article into three parts to be then and there separated, and each part to be marked and sealed or fastened up in such manner as its nature will permit, and shall, if required to do so, proceed accordingly, and shall deliver one of such parts to the seller or his agent.
He shall afterwards retain one of the said parts for future comparison and submit the third part, if he deems it right to have the article analysed, to the analyst.
14. If the seller or his agent do not accept the offer of the purchaser to divide the article purchased in his pre- sence, the analyst receiving the article for analysis shall divide the same into two parts, and shall seal or fasten up one of those parts and shall cause it to be delivered, either upon receipt of the sample or when he supplies the cer- tificate to the purchaser, who shall retain the same for production in case proceedings shall afterwards be taken in the matter.
15. If any such medical officer, inspector, or constable, as described in section 12 hereof, shall apply to purchase any article of food or any drug exposed to sale, or on sale by retail in any premises, shop or stores, or in any street or place, and shall tender the price for the quantity which he shall purchase for the purpose of analysis, not being more than shall be reasonably requisite, and the person exposing the same for sale shall refuse to sell the same to such medical officer, inspector, or constable, such person
Penalty on sale of compounded food or drug. (38 & 39 Vic. c. 63, ■. 7.)
Protection from offence by giving of label.
(Ibu, s. 8.)
Frohibition? against the abstraction of any part of an article of food hofore sale, and selling without notice. (Ibid, s. a)
Tower to purchaser
or seller of food or drug to have it analysed. 7b, H. 12.)
Officer named to obtain a sample of food or drag to submit to
analyst.
(Ibid, s. 13.)
Provision for dealing with
the sample When purchased.
(Zbid, n. 14,3
Provinic when sample is not divided.
(biel, m. 15.)
L'erach refusing to
631 atyy article to any officer liable to penalty. (Ibid, R. 17.)
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