PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE,
(Chapter [32).
FOOD ADULTERATION (ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS) REGULATIONS 1969.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 55 and 143 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations—
1. These regulations may be cited as the Food Adulteration (Artificial Sweeteners) Regulations 1969 and shall come into operation on the 1st January 1970.
2. lo these regulations, moless the context otherwise requires-- "artificial sweetener" means any chemical compound which is sweet to the taste, but does not include any sugars or other carbohydrates or polyhydric alcohols,
"carbohydrate" means a substance containing only carbon, bydrogen and oxygen, in which the hydrogen and oxygen occur in the same proportion as they do in water; "sugar" means any soluble carbohydrate sweatening matter; "sell" includes expose or offer for sale or have in possession for
gale.
3. (1) No person shall sell, consign, deliver or import any artificial sweetener for human consumption which is not specified in the Schedule.
(2) No person shall sell, consign or deliver or import any food intended for human consumption containing any artificial sweetener which is not specified in the Schedule.
4. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of regulation 3 shall be guilty of offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for three months.
5.
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 prosecution of criminal offences, a prosecution for an offence under these regulations may-
(a) where the offence was committed in the urban areas, be
brought in the name of the Urban Council; or
Citation and Commencement.
Interpretation.
Restriction on
sale and use of artificial sweetenefs. Schedule
Offences and penalties.
Name in which proceedings may be brought.