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FOOD AND DRUGS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 8

8.(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, any person who

(a)sells, or offers or exposes for sale, or has in his possession for the
purpose of sale or of preparation for sale; or

(b)deposits with, or consigns to, any person for the purpose of sale or of
preparation for sale;

(2) Subject as aforesaid, where food in respect of which an offence under
paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) has been committed was sold to the offender
by some other person, that person also shall be guilty of an offence under
this Act.

(3) Where a person is charged with an offence under paragraph (b) of
sub-section (1) or under sub-section (2) it shall be a defence for him to
prove

(a)that he had no reason to suppose that the person, with whom he deposited,
or to whom he consigned or sold, the food in question, intended the food for
human consumption, and that he gave notice to that person that the food was
unfit for such consumption; or

(b)that, at the time when he delivered or dispatched it to that person, it was
fit for human consumption; or

(c)that, at such time as aforesaid he did not know, and could not with
reasonable diligence have ascertained, that it was unfit for
human consumption.

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