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C.S.O. 3090/25.

A BILL

[No. 87.9.33.-7.]

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INTITULED

An Ordinance to make better provision for the Sale of Food and Drugs in an unadul- terated state.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Adulterated Short title. Food and Drugs Ordinance, 1933.

2. In this Ordinance,---

Analyst" means the Government Analyst or an analyst appointed by the Governor for the purposes of this Ordinance;

"Appliance" includes the whole or any part of any utensil, machinery, instrument, apparatus or article used or intended for use in or for the making, keeping, preparing or supplying of any food;

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Drug" means any substance or mixture of sub- stances used by man as a medicine, whether internally or externally, and includes anesthetics;

"Food" includes every article which is used for food or drink by man or which enters into or is used in the composition or preparation of any such article and also includes flavouring matters and condiments but does not include drugs or water;

"Officer" means any person authorised in writing by the Urban Council on the recommendation of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services for the purposes of this Ordinance ;

"Package" includes every means by which goods for carriage or for sale are cased, covered, enclosed, contained or packed ;

"Sale" or "sell" includes barter and also in- cludes 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.

Interpreta- tion.

3.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Regulations. Council to make regulations for the following pur-

poses :-

(a) to prescribe the standard of strength, weight, quality or quantity of any food or drug or of any ingredient or component part thereof; (b) to prohibit the addition of any specified thing or of more than the specified quantity or proportion thereof to any food or drug; (c) to prohibit any modes of manufacture, pre- paration or preservation of any food or drug; (d) to secure the cleanliness and freedom from contamination of any food or drug in the

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