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Sale and possession of unwhole- some food.
(11) "Restaurant" means a building or portion thereof used as an hotel, eating house, coffee house or other similar establishment and having a licence for the sale of intoxicating liquors.
(12) Technical services" include inspections, examina- tions, taking of samples, seizures, prosecutions and all other duties of a supervisory nature carried out by Veterinary Sur- geon, Sanitary Inspectors and Food Officers under the powers conferred by this Ordinance and the by-laws made thereunder.
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(13) Sale" or "Sell" includes barter and also includes offering or attempting to sell or receiving for sale or having in possession for sale or exposing for sale or sending or delivering for sale or causing or allowing to be sold, offered or exposed for sale and refers only to sale for human consumption or use.
3. No person shall sell or expose for sale, or bring into the Colony or into any market, or have in his possession without reasonable excuse, any food for man in a tainted, diseased or unwholesome state, or which is unfit for food for
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Inspection and seizure of unwhole- some food.
4. (1) Any Food Officer may at all reasonable times enter into and inspect any place where he has reason to believe there is any food for man intended for sale, or where he has reason to believe there is any food for man in a tainted, diseased or unwholesome state, or which is unfit for food for man.
(2) Any Food Officer may mark, seal or otherwise secure, weigh, count or measure any food, the sale, pre- paration or manufacture of which is, or appears to be, contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance or the by-laws made thereunder.
(3) Any Food Officer or any officer of the Sanitary Department or police officer may inspect any food for man which he inay find in any highway, street, road, pier, wharf, waterway, railway or vessel which he has reason to believe to be in a tainted, diseased or unwholesome state, or unfit for food for man.
(4) Any such officer may seize any food which is or appears to be held in contravention of section 3; and, if authorised so to do in writing by the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services may destroy it or so dispose of it as to prevent it from being used as food for man.
(5) Any person claiming anything seized under this section may, within forty-eight hours after such seizure, complain to a magistrate, who may either confirm or disallow such seizure wholly or in part, and may order the article seized to be restored.
(6) If within forty-eight hours after such seizure no complaint has been made or if such seizure is confirmed, the article seized shall become the property of the Government and shall be destroyed or otherwise disposed of so as to prevent its being used for human consumption.
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