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(2.) Where the duties of an Officer of Customs, with respect to the
examination of a cargo or consignment comprising an article of food, have not
been wholly discharged, an examination of the article of food for the purposes
of these Regulations shall not be made without the consent of the Officer of
Customs ; but every Officer of Customs shall afford such facilities as the
circumstances require for the examination of the article of food in pursuance
of these Regulations.
Short title.
Article XV.—These Regulations may be cited as "The Public Health
(First Series : Unsound Food) Regulations, 1908."
Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government Board, this
Twelfth day of September, in the year One thousand nine
hundred and eight.
l.s.
JOHN BURNS,
President.
S. B. PROVIS,
Secretary.
Notice—The Public Health Act, 1896, provides by sub-section 3 of Section 1 that if
any person wilfully neglects or refuses to obey or carry out, or obstructs the execution of
any regulation made under any of the enactments mentioned in that Act, he shall be
liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds, and, in the case of a continuing
offence to a further penalty not exceeding fifty pounds for every day during which the
offence continues.
The power of making regulations under the Public Health Act, 1896, and the
enactments mentioned in that Act is enlarged by the Public Health (Regulations as
to Food) Act, 1907.
Date of publication in the London Gazette,
15th September, 1908.