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PART III.
Importation of Articles of Food.
8.—(1) Subject to any directions given by the Commissioners of
Customs and Excise after consultation with the Minister, the Officers
of Customs and Excise shall have power to enforce and execute this
Part of these Regulations and may take such samples as may be
necessary of consignments of imported articles to which these Regulations
apply.
(2) Where an Officer of Customs and Excise takes a sample for the
purpose of analysis he shall send the sample or a portion thereof to the
Government Chemist, and either the officer or the Government Chemist
shall send a portion of the sample to the importer.
9.—(1) The following authorities and any officers authorised by them
in writing shall also have power to enforce and execute this Part of
these Regulations, namely :—
(a) Where the article of food is landed from a ship or aircraft in
a place which is not within the jurisdiction of a Port Sanitary
Authority, or where the article is imported in a vehicle and
the Customs examination of that vehicle is deferred with the
consent of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise until
the vehicle reaches a place outside such jurisdiction, the
Council of the Borough (including the City of London and
a Metropolitan Borough) or Urban or Rural District in which
such place is situated.
(b) In every other case, the Port Sanitary Authority.
(2) Every officer authorised as aforesaid may take such samples as
may be necessary of consignments of imported articles to which these
Regulations apply, and where he takes a sample for the purpose of
analysis he shall send the sample or a portion thereof to a public
analyst and either the officer or the analyst shall send a portion of the
sample to the importer.
(3) Where the duties of an Officer of Customs and Excise with regard
to the examination of a cargo or consignment comprising an article of
food have not been wholly discharged, a sample of that article shall
not be taken without his consent, but every officer of Customs and
Excise shall afford such facilities as the circumstances require for the
taking of samples in pursuance of this Article.
10. If in any case the Commissioners of Customs and Excise or a
Port Sanitary Authority or other authority executing this Part of these
Regulations are of opinion that an offence against this Part of these
Regulations has been committed, they shall communicate to the Minister
for his information the name of the importer and such other facts as they
may possess or may obtain as to the destination of the consignment.
11.—(1) No person shall import into England or Wales any article
of food intended for sale which contains any added preservative or any
of the colouring matters specified in Part II of the First Schedule to
these Regulations :
Provided that—
(i) any article of food specified in Part I of the said Schedule may
contain preservative of the nature and in the proportion
therein specified;
(ii) where an article of food specified in Part I of the said Schedule
is used in the preparation of any other article of food, the
latter article may contain any preservative necessarily introduced
by the use of the former article, but the total proportion
of any one preservative contained in any article of food