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A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Sale of Food and

Drugs Ordinance, 1896.

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

struction.

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

new section

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

Principal Ordinance.

densed

10A. Every tin or other receptacle containing Provisions condensed separated or skimmed milk shall as to con- bear a label clearly visible to the purchaser separated on which the words "Machine skimmed or skimmed

are

milk.

c. 51 s. 11.

Milk (去取噐機用經膏之奶此)" or

Or 62 & 63 17:Z. Skimmed Milk (奶之膏去此)" as the case may require, and "not suitable for the feeding of infants under one year of age (食合不孩小之歲週滿未)” printed in English and Chinese in large and legible type, and if any person sells or exposes or offers for sale condensed separ- ated or skimmed milk in contravention of this section he shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding 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 adds a new the addition after section 27 thereof of the following section to

the Principal section

Ordinance.

Council to

cheese.

62 & 63 Viet.

c. 51 s. 4.

28.-(1.) The Governor-in-Council may make Power for

regulations for determining what de- Governor-in- ficiency in any of the normal constituents make regula- of genuine milk, cream, butter, or cheese, tions as to or what addition of extraneous matter or analysis of

milk, cream, proportion of water, in any sample of milk

butter, or including condensed milk, cream, butter, or cheese, shall for the purposes of this Or- dinance raise a presumption, until the con- trary is proved, that the milk, cream, butter, or cheese is not genuine or is injurious to health, and an analyst shall have regard to such regulations in certifying the result of of an analysis under this Ordinance. (2.) Any regulations made under this section shall be notified in the Gazette and shall also be made known in such other manner as the Governor-in-Council may direct.”

Objects and Reasons.

This Bill introduces two important provisions of the Imperial Sale of Foods and Drugs Act 1899, the intro- duction of which has been strongly urged by the Government medical advisers,

C. G. ALABASTER, Attorney General.