PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE, 1960.
(No. 30 of 1960).
Mineral OIL IN Food REGULATIONS, 1962.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 55 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations-
I. These regulations may be cited as the Mineral Oil in Food Citation. Regulations, 1962.
2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires- "mineral oil” means any hydro-carbon product, whether liquid, semi- liquid or solid, derived from any substance of mineral origin and includes liquid paraffins (otherwise known as kerosene), white oils, petroleum jellies and hard paraffins.
Interpreta
tion.
3. Except as provided in regulation 4-
Prohibition of sale
containing
(a) no person shall use or permit to be used any mineral oil in of food
the composition or preparation of any article of food intended for sale for human consumption:
(b) no person shall sell or offer, expose, possess or manufacture for sale for human consumption any article of food coutaining any mineral oil.
4.
Regulation 3 shall not apply where-
(a) the amount of mineral oil contained in any article of food does not exceed 0.2 parts by weight of mineral oil per 100 parts by weight of the article of food; and
(6) the presence of mineral oil in any article of food is due not to its inclusion as an ingredient in the article of food but to its use as a lubricant or greasing agent on some surface with which the article of food has necessarily to come into contact in the course of its preparation.
mineral oil
Exemption from probi. bition.
5. Any person who contravenes the provisions of regulation 3 Offence and shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction
penalty.
to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for three months,