Power to examine food in course of transit

(1) If an authorised officer has reason to suspect that any cart, barrow or other vehicle, or any container contains any food intended for sale for human consumption, or in the course of delivery after sale for human consumption, he may examine the contents of the vehicle or, as the case may be, of the container, and for that purpose may, if necessary, detain the vehicle or the container and, if he finds any food which appears to him to be intended for, but unfit for, human consumption, he may deal with it as food falling within section 13(1),(2), (3) and (4). (2) Where the duties of an officer of customs and excise with respect to any goods have not been wholly discharged, nothing in sub-section (1) shall authorise the examination of those goods without his consent.