Section No :  
Legislative Enactments
FOOD AND DRUGS
Marginal Notes
1. This Act may be cited as the Food and Drugs Act.
2. Restrictions on the addition of other substances to any food or drug.
3. Restrictions on the abstraction from any food of any constituent thereof.
4. Prohibition against sale of any food or drug not of the nature, substance or quality-demanded.
5. Defences available in cases under section 4.
6. Provisions as to labels.
7. Labels and advertisements describing incorrectly food or drugs.
8. Presumptive evidence as to injurious nature of food.
9. Power to make regulations as to the importation, preparation, storage, sale, delivery, &c, of food and drugs
10. Penalty for sale, &c, of unsound food
11. Prosecution by authorized officer.
12. Provisions as to rooms where food intended for sale is prepared or stored, &c.
13. Registration of premises used in connexion with the manufacture or sale of ice-cream, or preserved food, &c.
14. Regulations with respect to the handling, wrapping, &c, of food, and the sale of food in the open air.
15. Notification of cases of food poisoning.
16. Provisions as to suspected food.
17. "Milk and Dairies Regulations ".
18. Use of special designations in connexion with milk.
19. Regulations as to presumptive evidence of adulteration of milk.
20. Certain additions not to be made to milk, and certain liquids not to be sold as milk.
21. Regulations as to the composition of bread and the addition of substances to flour.
22. Prohibition of adulterants in bakehouses and mills.
23. Limit of water in butter, &c., and provisions as to butter in margarine.
24. Conditions to be observed in dealings in margarine, margarine-cheese and milk-blended butter.
25. Provisions as to ice-cream likely to cause milk-borne disease.
26. Restrictions on the importation of certain foods.
27. Adulterated or impoverished food.
28. Powers of sampling food and drugs.
29. Right to have samples analysed.
30. Division of, and dealings with, samples
31. Special provisions as to the sampling of milk, &c.
32. Definition of expression "to obtain samples ".
33. Appeals.
34. References.
35. Parties to be given opportunity of being heard.
36. Procedure at hearing of appeals and references.
37. Decision of Magistrate's Court to be final.
38. Summary recovery of compensation.
39. Stamp duties payable into Consolidated Fund.
40. Competent authorities and authorized officers.
41. Approved public analysts.
42. Fees to be paid to approved public analysts.
43. Reports by approved public analysts.
44. Delegation of powers by competent authorities.
45. Powers of entry.
46. Expenses of administration.
47. Default of local authority. [ 2, 38 of 1952.]
48. Protection for officers acting in the execution of their duty.
49. Regulations.
50. Obstruction of officers in the execution of their duties.
51. Evidence of certificates of analysis.
52. Presumptions.
53. Power of court to require analysis by the Government Analyst.
54. Conditions under which, a warranty may be pleaded as defence.
55. Offences in relation to warranties and certificates of analysis.
56. Offences.
57. Penalties.
58. Offences triable by-Magistrate's Court.
59. Prosecutions in respect of samples.
60. Where accused proves that some other person is guilty of the offence.
61. Application of Customs Ordinance.
62. Application of other written law relating to food and drugs.
63. Fines to be paid into funds of local authority.
64. Interpretation.