PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE, 1960.
(No. 30 of 1960).
PRESERVATIVES IN FOOD (Amendment) Regulations, 1962.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 55 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, the Governor in Council bas made the following regulations-
1. These regulations may be cited as the Preservatives in Food Citation. (Amendment) Regulations, 1962.
(GN.A. 75/60).
2 Regulation 2 of the Preservatives in Food Regulations. 1960. Amendment of regulation (hereinafter referred to as the principal regulations) is amended in para- 2. graph (1) by the insertion before the definition "benzoic acid" of the following definition- ""antioxidant" means any substance which delays, retards or prevents the development in food of rancidity or other flavour deterioration due to oxidation but does not include lecithin, ascorbic acid, tocopherols, citric acid, tartaric acid, phosphoric acid or any pre- servative the use of which is permitted by these regulations;”.
3. Regulation 3 of the principal regulations is amended by the Amendment insertion after the word "preservative" wherever it appears of the of regulatiem following-
"or antioxidant”,
4. Regulation 4 of the principal regulations is amended-
3.
Amendment of regulation
(a) in paragraph (1) by the insertion after the word "preservative" 4.
of the following—
"or antioxidant"; and
(6) in paragraph (2)—–
() by the insertion after the word "preservative" of the following-
"or antioxidant"'; and
(i) by the deletion of the full stop and the substitution therefor of a colon; and
(i) by the addition thereafter of the following proviso-
"Provided that in any proceedings for an offence against this paragraph in relation to the publication of an advertisement, it shall be a defence for the defendant to prove that, being a person whose business it is to