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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 9, 1911.

No. 169. His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council

Ordinance No. 20 of 1911.—An Ordinance to amend the Sale of Food and Drugs

Ordinance, 1896.

Ordinance No. 21 of 1911.-An Ordinance to amend the Trade Marks Ordinance,

1909.

Ordinance No. 22 of 1911.-An Ordinance to amend the Patents Amendment

Ordinance, 1909.

Ordinance No. 23 of 1911.—An Ordinance to amend the Foreign Offenders Deten-

tion Ordinance, 1872.

HONGKONG,

No. 20 of 1911.

An Ordinance to amend the Sale of Food and

Drugs Ordinance, 1896.

F. D. LUGARD,

LS

Governor.

[9th June, 1911.]

Short title and con- struction.

Inserts &

new section

in the

Principal Ordinance.

Provision as to condensed separated or skimmed milk sold for consumption in the Co- lony.

Adds a new section to

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Sale of Food and Drugs Amendment Ordinance, 1911“, and it shall be read and construed as one with the Sale of Food and Drugs Ordinance, 1896, hereinafter called

the Principal Ordinance “.

2. The Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the insertion after section 10 thereof of the following section :-

**10. Every tin or other receptacle containing condensed separated or skimmed milk sold or exposed for sale for consumption în the Colony shall bear a label ; and on every such label and on the wrapper, if any, of every such tin or other receptacle there shall be printed in large and legible type in English and Chinese the words This is skimmed milk, children under one year of age should not be fed on it (此係牛奶水一歲 以內之嬰兒不台食) and if any person sells or exposes or offers for sale for consumption in the Colony condensed separ- ated or skimmed milk in contravention of this section he shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not execeding one hundred dollars and, in default of payment thereof, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding three months."

3. The Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the addition after section 27 thereof of the following the Principal section :—

Ordinance.

Power for Governor-in- Council to make regula- tions as to analysis of milk, cream, butter, or cheese.

62 & 63 Viet, c. 51 s. 4.

** 28.—(1.) The Governor-in-Council may make regulations for determining what de- ficiency in any of the normal constituents of genuine niilk, cream, butter, or cheese, or what addition of extraneous matter or proportion of water, in any sample of milk including condensed milk, cream, butter, or cheese, shall for the purposes of this Or- dinance raise a presumption, until the con-

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