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Inspection of

food.

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83.-(1) Any member of the Board, or any unwholesome officer of the Department duly authorised by the Board in writing, may at all reasonable times enter into and inspect any place where he has reason to believe there is any food for un 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 member of the Board or any officer of the Department or of the police may inspect any food for man which he may find in any highway, street, rond, pier, wharf, railway or vessel which he has reason to believe to be in a tainted diseased or unwholesome state, or uufit for food of man.

(3) Any such member or officer may seize any food which is or appears to be held in contravention of section 82; and, if authorised so to do in writing by the Head of the Depart- ment upon the recommendation of the Medical Officer of Health or any Assistant Medical Officer of Health or of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, or Assistant Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, may destroy it or so dispose of it as to prevent it from being used as food for man.

4. In section 30A of the Summary Offences Ordinance, Amendment 1845, the figure 82," is deleted.

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of Ordinance

No. 1 of 1845, s. 30A..

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Ordinance is firstly to repeal section 70 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, which authorised the seizure of unmarked meat and which is unnecessary, as much meat may be lawfully sold and consumed in the Colony which does not hear the official mark of the Government slaughter houses; and secondly to repeal section 82 of the Ordinance as enacted by the amending Ordinance of 1928, (No. 19 of 1928, s. 8) and to substitute two sections therefor based partly on that section and partly on the sections it replaced. These sections deal with the sale, possession, inspection, seizure and destruction of unwholesome food. The reference to section 82 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance in section 30A of the Summary Offences Ordinance is deleted because it is not considered necessary and because So far as the power of the penalty has been increased. arrest given by that section is concerned section 27 of the Police Force Ordinance (Ordinance No. 11 of 1900) provides all that is considered necessary.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

December, 1930

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