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BOARD OF WORKS FOR THE WHITECHAPEL DISTRICT.
THE SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACTS, 1875 and 1899
38 and 39 Vict., Ch. 63, and 62 and 63 Vict. Ch. 51.
NOTICE.
Attention is hereby directed to some of the Provisions of the above Acts for
making better provision for the Sale of Food and Drugs in a pure state.
A.D. 1875.
Secftion 6.
No person shall sell to the prejudice of the purchaser any article of food or any drug
which is not of the nature, substance, and quality of the article demanded by such
purchaser, under a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.
Section 9.
No person shall, with the intent that the same may be sold in its altered state without
notice, abstract from an article of food any part of it so as to affect injuriously its
quality, substance, or nature, and no person shall sell any article so altered without
making disclosure of the adulteration, under a penalty in each case not exceeding
twenty pounds.
Any person who shall forge, or shall utter, knowing it to be forged for the purposes of
this Act, any certificate or any writing purporting to contain a warranty, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanour and be punishable on conviction by imprisonment for a term
of not exceeding two years with hard labour;
Every person who shall wilfully apply to an article of food, or a drug, in any proceedings
under this Act, a certificate or warranty given in relation to any other article
or drug, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and be liable to a penalty not
exceeding twenty pounds;
Every person who shall give a false warranty in writing to any purchaser in respect
of an article of food or a drug sold by him as principal or agent, shall be guilty of an
offence under this Act, and be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds;
And every person who shall wilfully give a label with any article sold by him which
shall falsely desciibe the article sold, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and
be liable to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.
A.D. 1889.
Sedtion 5.
The provisions of the Margarine Act, 1887, as amended by this Act, shall extend to
margarine-cheese, and shall apply accordingly, with the substitution of "margarinecheese"
and "cheese" for "margarine" and "butter," and provided that all margarine-cheese
sold or dealt in otherwise than by retail shall either be inclosed in
packages marked in accordance with the Margarine Act, 1887, as amended by this
Act, or be itself conspicuously branded with the words " margarine-cheese."
Section 6.
(1) Where under this Act or the Margarine Act, 1887, it is required that any package
containing margarine or margarine-cheese shall be branded or marked, the brand or
mark shall be on the package itself and not solely on a label, ticket, or other thing
attached thereto.
(2) The letters required to be printed on the paper wrapper in which margarine or margarine-cheese
is sold shall be capital block letters not less than half-an-inch long and
distinctly legible, and no other printed matter shall appear on the wrapper.
Section 9.
Every person who, himself or by his servant, in any highway or place of public resort
sells milk or cream from a vehicle or from a can or other receptacle shall have conspicuously
inscribed on the vehicle or receptacle his name and address, and in default
shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two pounds.
Section 11
Every tin or other receptacle containing condensed, separated or skimmed milk must
bear a label clearly visible to the purchaser on which the words "machine-skimmed
milk," or "skimmed milk," as the case may require, are printed in large legible type,
and if any person sells or exposes or offers for sale condensed, separated or skimmed
milk in contravention of this section he shall be liable on summary conviction to a
fine not exceeding ten pounds.
Sestion 17.
(1) Where, under any provision of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1875, a person
guilty of an offence is liable to a fine which may extend to twenty pounds as a maximum,
he shall be liable for a second offence under the same provision to a fine not
exceeding fifty pounds, and for any subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding one
hundred pounds.
(2) Where, under any provision of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, a person guilty of
an offence is liable to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, and the offence, in the opinion
of the court, was committed by the personal act, default, or culpable negligence of
the person accused, that person shall be liable (if the court is of opinion that a fine
will not meet the circumstances of the case) to imprisonment, with or without hard
labour, for a period not exceeding three months.
Proceedings will be taken against any person committing an offence against the
provisions of the said acts for the recovery of the penalties imposed thereby.
Offices of the Board, 15, Great Alie Street, Whitechapel, E.