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Power of

officers to enter, etc,

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course of its manufacture, preparation, stor- age, packing, carriage, delivery or exposure for sale and securing the cleanliness of places, receptacles, appliances and vehicles used in such manufacture, preparation, stor- age, packing, carriage or delivery;

(e) to prescribe the mode of labelling food or drugs sold in packages and the matter to be contained or not to be contained in the labels: ;

(f) to prescribe the method of analysis of any food or drag and the form of certificate of analysis;

(g) to fix the fees to be paid in respect of the

analysis of any food or drug by an analyst;

(h) to prohibit the sale of specified articles of

food otherwise than by weight; and

(1) generally for carrying out the provisions of

this Ordinance.

(2) Any such regulation may be made applicable either to foods or drugs generally or to specified foods or drugs only.

(3) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legis- lative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded or amended as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.

4.-(1) Any officer may

(a) at all reasonable times enter into and inspect any place where there is any food or drug which he has reasonable ground for believing to be intended for sale ;

(b) mark, seal or otherwise secure, weigh, count or measure any food or drug the sale, pre- paration or manufacture of which is or appears to be contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance or the regulations made there- under;

(e) seize any food or drug, wherever found, which is or appears to be unwholesome or dele- terious to health;

(d) destroy any food or drug, wherever found,

which is decayed or putrid;

(e) inspect any food or drug, wherever found, which he has reasonable ground for believing to be intended for sale.

(2) 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,

(3) If within forty-eight hours after such seizure no complaint has been made or if such seizure is con-

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firmed, 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.

5.--(1) On payment or tender to any person selling Power to or making any food or drug or to his agent or servant demand,

select and of the current market value of the samples in this

take samples. section referred to, any officer may at any place demand and select and take or obtain samples of the said food or drug for the purpose of analysis.

(2) Any such officer may require the said person

or his agent or servant to show and permit the inspec- tion of the package in which such food or drug is at the time kept and to take therefrom the samples demanded.

(3) Where any food or drug is kept for retail sale in an unopened package, no person shall be required by any officer to sell less than the whole of the con- tents of such package.

(4) Every person commits an offence who refuses

to

or neglects to comply with any demand or requisition made by an officer in pursuance of this section unless he proves that he had no knowledge or reason believe that the sample demanded was required for the purpose of analysis.

6. Any person may, on payment of the prescribed Any person fee together with the cost of the sample, require any may have

sample officer to purchase a sample of any food or drug and analysed. submit the same for analysis.

7-(1) Where it is intended to submit any sample Samples for analysis, the officer purchasing or otherwise pro- how taken. curing it shall, before or forthwith after procuring it, inform the seller or his agent selling the article that

he intends to have the same analysed by an analyst.

(2) He shall thereupon divide the sample into three parts and shall mark and seal or fasten up, in such manner as its nature will permit, each such part and shall offer one of such parts to the seller or his agent.

(3) He shall subsequently deliver, personally, an- other of such parts to an analyst and shall retain the third of such parts.

(4) When any sample for analysis is procured in an unopened package, the officer procuring the same shall retain such package and at the time of delivering

a part of the sample to an analyst shall also deliver to him such package together with any label which may have been attached to the said package at the time it was procured.

8. (1) The certificate of the analyst shall be in Certificate the form prescribed by regulations.

of analyst.

(2) Where any method of analysis, chemical or physical, has been prescribed by regulations for the analysis of any food or drug, any analyst either for the prosecution or defence shall follow and shall in his certificate of analysis declare that he has followed the prescribed method in his analysis.

(3) A copy of the result of any analysis of any food or drug procured by an officer may be obtained from the analyst by the person from whom the article

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