FOOD AND DRUGS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 68 Orders and regulations.

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FOOD AND DRUGS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 68

Orders and regulations.

68.(1) The Ministry may make regulations prescribing anything which is to be
prescribed under this Act.

(2) Before making any regulations under this Act, and before making an order
under section five or section eighteen the Ministry shall, subject to
sub-section (3), consult with such organisations as appear to the Ministry to
be representative of interests substantially affected by the regulations or by
the order.

(3) Sub-section (2) shall not apply in relation to the making of regulations
which reproduce, without substantive modification, any provisions in force
immediately before the tenth day of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-six.

(4) Regulations made under this Act may, without prejudice to the generality
of the provisions under which they are made,

(a)modify for the purposes of the regulations any provisions of this Act
relating to the procuring, analysis and examination of samples;

(b)apply, as respects matters to be dealt with by the regulations, any
provision in any Act (including this Act) dealing with the like matters, with
the necessary modifications and adaptations;

(c)provide for an appeal to a court of summary jurisdiction against any
refusal or other decision of an authority by whom the regulations are to be
enforced and executed, and for a further appeal to the county court from any
decision of a court of summary jurisdiction on any such appeal;

(d)authorise the making of charges for the purposes of the regulations, or for
any services performed thereunder, and provide for the recovery of charges so
made;

(e)contain provisions for imposing on persons offending against the
regulations penalties not exceeding the maximum penalties specified in section
forty-five;

(f)require persons carrying on any activity to which the regulations apply to
keep and produce records and furnish returns;

(g)make such consequential, ancillary and incidental provisions as appear to
the Ministry to be necessary or desirable.

(5) Sub-section (4) shall apply to an order made under section five or section
twenty-nine as it applies to regulations made under this Act.

(6) Any regulations made under this Act shall be subject to negative
resolution.[

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