FOOD AND DRUGS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 44 Persons obstructing execution of Act.

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FOOD AND DRUGS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 44

Persons obstructing execution of Act.

44.(1) A person who wilfully obstructs any person acting in the execution of
this Act, or of any regulation, byelaw, order or warrant made or issued
thereunder, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.

(2) If

(a)a sampling officer applies to purchase any food.... or substance exposed
for sale, or on sale by retail, and tenders the price for the quantity which
he requires as a sample, and the person exposing the food.... or substance for
sale, or having it for sale, refuses to sell to the officer such quantity
thereof as aforesaid; or

(b)the seller or consignor of any article or substance of which the officer
has power to take a sample, or a person having the charge for the time being
of such an article or substance, refuses to allow the officer to take the
quantity which he requires as a sample;

(3) Where any food.... or substance is exposed for sale in an unopened
container duly labelled, a person shall not be required to sell that food....
or substance except in the unopened container in which it is contained.

(4) A person who fails to give to any person acting in the execution of
this Act, or of any regulation, byelaw, order or warrant made or issued
thereunder, any assistance which that person may reasonably request him to
give, or any information which that person is expressly authorised by this Act
to call for or may reasonably require, or who, when required to give any such
information, knowingly makes any misstatement in respect thereof, shall,
subject to sub-section (5), be guilty of an offence under this Act.

(5) Nothing in sub-section (4) shall be construed as requiring a person to
answer any question or give any information, if so to do might incriminate
him.

Penalties.

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FOOD AND DRUGS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 44