FOOD AND DRUGS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 4 Regulations as to composition of food, etc.

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FOOD AND DRUGS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 4

Regulations as to composition of food, etc.

4.(1) Subject to sub-section (4), the Ministry of Health and Local Government
(in this Act referred to as "the Ministry") may, so far as appears to
the Ministry to be necessary or expedient in the interests of the public
health, or otherwise for the protection of the public [or to be called for by
any Community obligation], make regulations for any of the following purposes:

(a)for requiring, prohibiting or regulating the addition of any specified
substance, or any substance of any specified class, to food intended for sale
for human consumption or any class of such food, or the use of any such
substance as an ingredient in the preparation of such food, and generally for
regulating the composition of such food;

(b)for requiring, prohibiting or regulating the use of any process or
treatment in the preparation of any food intended for sale for
human consumption, or any class of such food;

(c)for prohibiting or regulating the sale, possession for sale, offer or
exposure for sale, consignment or delivery of food which does not comply with
any of the regulations, or in relation to which an offence under the
regulations has been committed or would have been committed if any relevant
act or omission had taken place in Northern Ireland;

(d)for prohibiting or regulating the sale, possession for sale, or offer,
exposure or advertisement for sale, of any specified substance, or of any
substance of any specified class, with a view to its use in the preparation of
food for human consumption, and the possession of any such substance for use
in the preparation of food intended for sale for human consumption.

(2) In the exercise of the functions conferred by this section the Ministry
shall have regard to the desirability of restricting, so far as practicable,
the use of substances of no nutritional value as foods or as ingredients of
foods.

(3) Regulations made under this section may apply to cream and separated milk,
and to any food containing milk; but except as aforesaid such regulations
shall not apply to milk.

(4) Regulations under this section which apply to cream or ice-cream shall be
made by the Ministry with the concurrence of the Ministry of Agriculture.

(5) Regulations made under this section may provide that, where any food is
certified by a public analyst as being food to which the regulations apply so
far as they are made under paragraph (c) of sub-section (1), that food may be
treated for the purposes of section nine as being unfit for human consumption.

(6) Nothing in any regulations made under this section shall be taken as
prejudicing the generality of the powers conferred by section nine.

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FOOD AND DRUGS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 4