Composition
and description of dried milk. Fins Schedule.
Labelling of containers of dried milk.
Second Schedule.
Offences and penalties,
Name in which proceedings may be brought
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4. (1) Dried milk of each description specified in the first column of the First Schedule shall contain a percentage of milk fat within the limits specified in relation thereto in the second column of that Schedule and shall contain not more than 5.0% of moisture, and no person shall sell any dried milk which does not comply with this regulation.
(2) No person shall sell any food under such a description as to lead an intending purchaser to believe that he is purchasing dried milk of a description to which paragraph (1) applies unless such food complies with this regulation.
(3) Where any person sells any food to a purchaser in response to a request for dried milk of a description to which paragraph (1) applies, he shall be deemed to sell dried milk of that description unless he clearly notifies the purchaser at the time of sale that the food is not dried milk of that description.
5. (1) Save as is provided in paragraph (3) no person shall advertise for sale or sell any dried partly skimmed milk or dried skimmed milk except in a container bearing a label in accordance with the provisions of the Second Schedule.
(2) No person shall sell any dried partly skimmed milk or dried skimmed milk in any such container if the container is wrapped in paper or some other wrapper through which the label on the container is not clearly visible unless the outermost wrapper also bears a label as if it were a container to which paragraph (1) of this regulation applies.
(3) The provisions of this regulation shall not apply in rela tion to any sale of dried partly skimmed milk or dried skimmed milk for immediate consumption on or at the premises of the seller or in or at any stall or mobile refreshment vehicle.
6. (1) Any person who contravenes or fails to comply with any provision of these regulations shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for three months.
(2) In any proceedings for a contravention of paragraph (1) of regulation 5 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 publish, or arrange for the publication of advertisements, he received the advertisement for publication in the ordinary course of business.
7. Without prejudice to the provisions of any other enact- ment relating to the prosecution of criminal offences, and without prejudice to the powers of the Attorney General in relation to the
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prosecution of criminal offences, prosecutions for an offence under any of the provisions of these regulations may-
(a) where the offence was committed in the urban areas, be
brought in the name of the Urban Council;
(b) where the offence was committed in the New Territories, be brought in the name of the Director of Urban Services.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
[reg. 4.]
Description of dried milk.
Percentage of milk fat.
Dried full cream milk
Dried partly skimuned milk
Dried skimmed milk
Not less than 26
Less than 26 and not less than 1.5
Less than 1.5
SECOND SCHEDULE.
[rep. 1.]
LABELLING OF CONTAINERS OF DRIED MILK.
1. Every container-
(a) containing dried partly skimmed milk shall bear the following
declaration--
DRIED PARTLY SKIMMED MILK.
(# # # # #
Contains not more than (2)% milk fat
Children under one year of age should not be fed on this milk except under medical advice, (除由醫生指導外不用以跟哺一歳以下之嬰兒);
(b) containing dried skimmed milk shall bear the following
declaration-
DRIED SKIMMED MILK. (# # # #)
Children under one year of age should not be fed on this milk except under medical advice. (除由醫生指導外不應用以慨唯一歲以下之嬰兒)