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(f) The expression "Officer of Customs" includes any person acting
under the authority of the Commissioners of His Majesty's
Customs;
(g) The expression "article of food" means an article of food which, as
part of the cargo of a ship, is brought to, or delivered or landed
at a place within England or Wales, either as a place of actual or
appointed destination, or as a place of deposit for the purpose of
transmission to a place of actual or appointed destination elsewhere
in the United Kingdom;
(h) The expression "importer" means any person in the United
Kingdom who, either as owner or consignee, agent or broker, is
entitled to the possession, custody, or control of any article
of food;
(i) The expression "Sanitary Authority" means every Port Sanitary
Authority, and every Council of a Municipal Borough or other
Urban District, and every Rural District Council whose borough
or district includes or abuts on any part of a Customs port which
part is not within the jurisdiction of a Port Sanitary Authority;
(J) The expression "the District means the District of a Sanitary
Authority;
(k) The expression "Medical Officer of Health" includes any duly
qualified Medical Practitioner appointed or employed by a Sanitary
Authority to act in the execution of these Regulations, and any
other person appointed or employed by the Sanitary Authority
under these Regulations to exercise any powers, or to discharge
any duties assigned to the Medical Officer of Health;
(J) The expression "Local Authority" means every Council of a
Municipal Borough- or other Urban District and every Rural
District Council, not being a Sanitary Authority within the
meaning of these Regulations, and includes the Common Council
of the City of London and every Council of a Metropolitan
Borough;
(m) The expression "area" used in relation to a Local Authority means
the area subject to the jurisdiction of the Local Authority for the
purposes of the Public Health Act, 1875, or of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, as the case may be;
(n) The expression "provincial enactments" means Sections one
hundred and sixteen to one hundred and nineteen of the Public
Health Act, 1875, and Section twenty-eight of the Public Health
Acts Amendment Act, 1890 (which relate to unsound food); and
(o) The expression "London enactments" means Section forty-seven of
the Public Health (London) Act, 1891 (which relates to
unsound food).