Food And Drugs

Cap. 291 · Revised Edition 2020 · 55 sections

s. 1Short title
s. 2Interpretation
s. 3Appointment of authorised officers
s. 4Restrictions on the addition of other substances to any food or drug
s. 5Restrictions on the abstraction from any food of any constituent thereof
s. 6Prohibition against sale of any food or drug not of the nature, sub-stance or quality demanded
s. 7Defences available in proceedings under section 6
s. 8Provisions as to labels
s. 9Labels and advertisements describing incorrectly food or drug
s. 10Presumptive evidence as to injurious nature of food
s. 11Regulations as to food hygiene
s. 12Penalty for sale, etc., of unsound food
s. 13Examination of food and seizure of unsound food
s. 14Provisions as to food offered as prizes, etc
s. 15Power to examine food in course of transit
s. 16Provisions as to rooms where food intended for sale is prepared or stored, etc
s. 17Registration of premises used in connection with the manufacture or sale of ice-cream or preserved food, etc
s. 18By-laws with respect to the handling, wrapping, etc., of food and the sale of food in open air
s. 19Notices to be displayed by persons selling ice-cream, etc., from stalls, carts, baskets, etc
s. 20Notification of cases of food poisoning
s. 21Provisions as to suspected food
s. 22Regulations
s. 23Certain additions not to be made to milk, and certain liquids not to be sold as milk
s. 24Prohibition of sale of tuberculosis milk, or milk of cows suffering from tuberculosis, etc
s. 25Regulation of sale of artificial cream
s. 26Regulations as to the composition of flour and the addition of substances to flour
s. 27Prohibition of adulterants in bake houses and mills
s. 28Limit of water in butter, etc., and provisions as to butter in margarine
s. 29Provisions as to ice-cream likely to cause milk-borne disease
s. 30Restrictions on the importation of certain foods
s. 31Power of Comptroller of Customs to have imported food sampled
s. 32Duty to enforce Act
s. 33Provision of officers for executing Act
s. 34Powers of sampling
s. 35Right to have samples analysed
s. 36Division of, and dealings with, samples
s. 37Special provisions as to the sampling of milk, and proceedings subsequent thereto
s. 38Penalty for obstructing execution of Act
s. 39Power to enter premises
s. 40Penalties
s. 41Prosecutions
s. 42Evidence of certificates of analysis, and presumptions
s. 43Power of court to require analysis by Government Chemist
s. 44Defence available to defendant where some other person is responsible for the commission of the offence charged
s. 45Conditions under which a warranty may be pleaded as defence
s. 46Offences in relation to warranties and certificates of analysis
s. 47Disputes as to compensation
s. 48Slaughterhouses and knacker’s yards to be licensed
s. 49Application for grant of licences
s. 50Particular grounds for refusal of licence
s. 51Duration of licence
s. 52Licensed premises to be separate
s. 53Restriction on meat entering slaughterhouse
s. 54Application
s. 55Power to make regulations generally