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Commencement
and
extent of
Regulations.
Article II.—These Regulations shall come into operation on the First day
of October, One thousand nine hundred and eight, and shall then and thereafter
apply and have effect in relation to the District of every Sanitary
Authority throughout England and Wales.
PART II.
Application
of statutory
provisions.
Article III.—Subject to the Public Health Act, 1896, and the enactments
therein mentioned, as applied by the Public Health (Regulations as to Food)
Act, 1907, any provision in any act of Parliament which applies to a
proceeding under or consequent upon the provincial enactments, or the
London enactments shall, according as the District is one in which the
provincial enactments, or the London enactments, are or may be put in force,
apply, with the necessary modifications and adaptations, to a proceeding under
or consequent upon Articles IV. to VI. in this Part, and as if those Articles
were comprised in, and were in force as part of the provincial enactments or
the London enactments, as the case may be.
Powers, &c.,
of Medical
Officer of
Health in
relation to
unsound
food.
Article IV.—(1.) The Medical Officer of Health may examine an article of
food which has been landed within the District.
Where the circumstances, in his opinion, so require, the Medical Officer of
Health may examine the article of food while it is on board a ship within the
District, or after it has been delivered overside, and before it has been landed.
(2.) The Master of a ship, or a person having the custody of any lands or
premises within the District shall, at the request of the Medical Officer of
Health, afford him access to the ship, or to the lands or premises, at any
reasonable time, for the examination of an article of food which is on board
the ship, or which has been deposited on the lands or premises.
(3.) The importer, the Master of the ship, or a person having the custody
of any lands or premises shall, at the request of the Medical Officer of Health,
afford, by the convenient and suitable arrangement, unpacking or uncovering
of so much of the cargo, or of any consignment delivered overside or landed,
or deposited on the lands or premises, as comprises articles of food, all such
facilities as the Medical Officer of Health may reasonably require for the
examination of the article of food.
(4.) If, on his examination, the Medical Officer of Health is of opinion that
the article of food is unsound or unwholesome, or unfit for human consumption,
he may himself, or by an assistant, seize and carry away the article of
food, or he may, by a notice in writing to the importer, or to the Master of the
ship, or to any other person having charge of the article of food, require that,
until the article of food has been examined by a Justice, the article of food
shall not, without the permission of the Medical Officer of Health, be removed
from the place at which the Medical Officer of Health has examined it, or from
any other place which he specifies in the notice.