Regulations
as to food and drugs hygiene.
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for sale of apparatus or utensils designed for such use and containing any specified materials, or materials of any specified class:
(d) for imposing requirements as to, and otherwise regulating, the labelling, marking or advertising of food intended for sale for buman consumption or drugs intended for sale for use by man, and the descriptions which may be applied to such food or drugs:
(e) for prescribing or providing for methods of analysis for the purpose of ascertaining the presence in, or absence from, any food or drug of any specified substance, or the quantity of any such substance which is present in any food or drug:
for fees to be paid in respect of analysis of food or drugs by a public analyst.
(2) In the exercise of his functions under subsection (1) in relation to the composition of food, the Governor in Council shall have regard to the desirability of restricting. so far as practicable, the use of sub- stances of no nutritional value as foods.
56. (1) Without prejudice to the provisions of section 55, the Authority may make regulations for securing the observance of sanitary and cleanly conditions and practices and wholesome methods in com- nexion with-
(a) the sale of food for human consumption or drugs for use by
man;
(6) the manufacture, preparation, transport, storage. packaging. marking, exposure for sale, service or delivery of food intended for sale or sold for human consumption and drugs intended for sale or sold for use by man and ice, or otherwise for the protection of the public health in connexion with any such matters.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of sub- section (1), regulations made under this section may make provision- (a) for prohibiting, restricting or regulating the sale, or storags possession or exposure for sale, of any specified food or drug. either generally or in any specified district, area or place of by any specified person or class of persons;
(6) for imposing requirements as to the construction, lay-out drainage, equipment, maintenance, cleanliness, ventilation and extraction of fumes or heat, lighting, water-supply and use of premises in, at or from which food for human consumption of drugs for use by man are sold or offered, exposed, stored. prepared or manufactured for sale (including any parts
#f such premises in which apparatus and utensils are cleansed of in which refuse is disposed of or stored):
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(c) for imposing requirements as to the provision, maintenance and cleanliness of sanitary and washing facilitics in connexion with such premises, the disposal of refuse and the maintenance and cleanliness of apparatus, equipment. furnishings and utensils used in such premises, and in particular for imposing require- ments that every sanitary convenience situated in soch premises shall be supplied with water through a suitable flush- ing appliance:
(d) for probibiting or restricting spitting on premises where food for human consumption or drugs for use by man are sold, or offered, exposed, stored, prepared or manufactured for sale (including any parts of such premises in which apparatus and utensils are cleansed);
(e) for imposing requirements as to the clothing to be worn by
persons engaged to work in such premises;
() for requiring the medical examination of persons engaged in any such premises or class of premises (including any parts of such premises in which apparatus and utensils are cleansed), the immunization of such persons against any specified diseases and the prohibition of the employment of any such person found to be sullering from any specified disease:
(g) for requiring the marking, staining or treating of meat intend-
ed for human consumption;
(4) for regulating generally the treatment and disposal of any food which is unfit for human consumption or any drug which is unfit for use by man or any food or drug which does not comply with any of the provisions of any regulation made under section 55 relating to the composition or standard of quality of food and drugs;
(f) for prohibiting or regulating the sale for human consumption, or the possession, offer, exposure, distribution or collection for sale for human consumption, of shellfish.
(3) Regulations made under this section may require or provide for the registration or licensing of premises, businesses or persons togaged in or connected with any of the matters specified in paragraph (4) or (b) of subsection (1), and may prescribe the fees to be paid in respect of such registration or licensing or in respect of any other matter.
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(4) Regulations made under this section may make different pro- visions in relation to different classes of business, and, without prejudice any other provisions of this section, any such regulations imposing requirements in respect of premises may impose on the occupier of the premises to which such regulations apply responsibility for compliance with those regulations.