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PUBLIC HEALTH AND URBAN SERVICES ORDINANCE 1960. (No. 30 of 1960).

COLOURING MATTER IN FOOD (AMENDMENT)

REGULATIONS 1965.

In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 55 and 143 of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance 1960 the Governor in Council has made the following regulations---

1. These regulations may be cited as the Colouring Matter in Cuation. Food (Amendment) Regulations 1965.

2. The Colouring Matter in Food Regulations 1960 are amended. Addition by the addition, after regulation 6, of the following new regulation-

"Name in

which pro- ceeding may

be brought.

Of new

regulation SA.

6A. Without prejudice to the provisions of any other (G.NA. enactment relating to the prosecution of criminal offences, 72/60). and without prejudice to the powers of the Attorney General in relation to the prosecutions 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; or

(b) where the offence was committed in the New Territories, be brought in the name of the Director of Urban Services.".

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

Clerk of Councils.

10th August, 1965,

Explanatory Note.

(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport).

The purpose of these regulations is to insert a provision similar to that in other subsidiary legislation under the Public Health and Urban Services Ordin- Ance 1960 specifying in whose name prosecutions may be brought.

(Secretariat GR3/3231/60)