Regulations relating to offensive trades.
(34 of 1955).
Offences in
connexion
with prepara- tion and sale of adulterated foods or drugs.
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49. Notwithstanding anything contained in the Factories and Industrial Undertakings Ordinance, 1955, the Authority may make regulations in relation to offensive trades prescribing or providing for- (a) registration or licensing, and fees and charges in connexion
therewith:
(b) the prevention of nuisances;
(c) the restriction of the carrying on of offensive trades, or groups or classes of such trades, to certain areas or districts or other. wise than in certain areas or districts!
(d) the construction, size, ventilation, drainage, cleansing, repair or maintenance of any building, yard, pen or other place in which any offensive trade is carried on;
(e) in the case of any offensive trade involving the slaughtering
of animals or birds-
(i) the manner in which such slaughtering is to be performed and the control, including prohibition. of the use of any specified instruments or appliances; and
(i) the manner in which the carcase of any animal or bird may be transported or moved from one place to any other place in connexion with such offensive trade.
PART V.
FOOD AND DRUGS.
50. (3) No person shall add any substance to food, use any substance as an ingredient in the preparation of food, abstract any constituent from food, or subject food to any other process or treatmeal. so as (in any such case) to render the food injurious to health, with intent that the food shall be sold for human consumption in that state.
(2) No person shall add any substance to, or abstract any con stituent from, a drug so as to affect injuriously the quality, constitution or potency of the drug, with intent that the drug shall be sold in that
state.
(3) Subject to the provisions of this section, no person shall- (a) sell for human consumption, offer, expose or advertise for sale for human consumption, or have in his possession for the purpose of such sale, any food rendered injurious to health by any operation described in subsection (1); or
(b) sell, offer, expose or advertise for sale, or have in his posses sion for the purpose of sale, any drug injuriously affected in its quality, constitution or potency by means of any operation described in subsection (2).
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(4) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of sub- section (1), (2) or (3) shall be guilty of an offence.
(5) In determining for the purposes of this Part whether an article of food is injurious to health, regard shall be had not only to the probable effect of that article on the health of a person consuming it. but also to the probable cumulative effect of articles of substantially the same composition on the health of a person consuming such articles in ordinary quantities.
(6) In any proceedings for an offence under the provisions of subsection (4) consisting of the advertisement for sale of any food or drug, it shall be a defence for the person charged to prove that, being a person whose business it is to publish, or arrange for the publication of, advertisements, he received the advertisement for publication in the ordinary course of business.
51. (1) No person shall add any water or colouring matter, or Adultera- any dried or condensed milk or liquid reconstituted therefrom, to milk tion, ele, of intended for sale for human consumption.
(2) No person shall add any separated milk, or mixture of cream and separated milk, to unseparated milk intended for sale for human consumption.
(3) No person shall sell or offer or expose for sale, or have in his possession for the purpose of sale, for human consumption any milk to which any addition has been made in contravention of the provisions of subsection (1) or (2).
(4) No person shall sell, offer or expose for sale, or advertise, under the designation of milk any liquid in the making of which any @parated milk, or any dried or condensed milk, bas been used.
(5) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of sub- section (1), (2), (3) or (4) shall be guilty of an offence.
(6) For the purposes of subsection (3), a person shall be deemed to retain the possession of milk which is deposited in any place for collection until it is actually collected.
milk.
purchasers of
52. (1) If any person sells to the prejudice of a purchaser any General pro» food or drug which is not of the nature, or not of the substance, or lection for not of the quality, of the food or drug demanded by the purchaser, food and he shall, subject to the provisions of section 53, be guilty of an offence, frogs.
(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of subsection (1), any person who for the purpose of sale keeps in any container any liquid which is not of the nature, or not of the substance, or not of the quality, of the alcoholic liquor which, by reason of the labelling or other marking of such container, it appears to be, shall be guilty of a offence.