Food and Drugs Act 1890 (SA)

ANNO QUINQUAGESIMO TERTIO ET QUINQUA*

GESIMO QUARTO

A.D. 1890.

No. 493.

An Act to amend " The Food and Drugs Act," No. 257,

1882, and for other purposes.

[Assented to, December 23rd, 1890.1

HEREAS it is desirable, for the better protection of the public, preamble. & "

to amend "The Food and Drugs Act," No. 257, 1882: Be it therefore Enacted by the Governor of the Province of South Australia, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the House of Assembly of the said province, in this present Parliament assembled, as follows:

1, This Act may be cited for all purposes as I' The Food and Shod title.

Dmgs Act Amendment Act, 1890."

2, No penalty of less than Five Pounds shall be imposed for an ~ n i m m psnalty

offence committed under sections 7 and 8 of The Food and Drugs to be e d ~ o e d.

Act," No. 267, 1882, hereinafter called the principal Act.

3. Section 9 of the principal Act is hereby amended by the B ~ t h fie

addition, at tlk end thereof, of the following words:--L6 and if, in monaea.

case of food, such food whioh is a mixture or haa an admixture of an

ingredient or ingredients not generally known and recognised as a

natural and necessary component part of that food, and is mixed

therewith by way of adulterating it, or is an artificial imitation of

an article of food, a label shall be affixed to that food, specifying

the names of each of the matters or ingredients with which such

articles of food are mixed or adulterated,"

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The Food and Drugs Act Amendmeat Art.-1890.

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appointed. 4. For the better protection of the public, and the enforcement

of the provisions of The Food and Drugs Act," No. 267,1882. and this Act, an inspector shall be appointed, whose salary and expenses

shall be paid out of the public revenue, who may a t any time in the

execution of his duty enter any mauufactory, warehouse, store, or building, where any articles of food may bbe manufactured, or retained or exposed for sale, and demand such sample or samples as hc may consider necessary for purposes of analysis by a competent officer appointed by Government, on paying the ordinary market price therefor.

L ~ U ' ins~ectora to be

assistants of public	6. The office of any local inspector who may have been or shall be appointed by a Municipal Corporation, or District Council, shall not beconlc vacant or inoperative throngh the appointment of the inspector above mentioned; but, for the better execution of this Act
inspectors.
and the provisions of the principal Act, such local inspectors shall
become advisers and assistants of the aforcnamed public inspector.
Provisions of the

principal Act not to be 6. The provisions of this Act shall in no way repeal or render

interferedwith. less operative any of the provisions of the principal Act.

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lished and printed on	7. Within six months from the passing hereof the Governor may issuz a Proclamation in the Govenzment Gazette setting forth the antidote or antidotes (if any are known) to all such poisons as may be considered advisable, together with the dose, application, and mode of administering such antidote or antidotes.
label.
No poison, concerning which any such Proclamation shall have been issued, shall, after the expiration of six months from the date thereof, be sold, unless the label affixcd to or a wwyper containing such poison shall have clearly and distinctly printed thereon the name of the antidote or antidotes. and other particulars contailled in such Proclamation,
Any person who shall fail to comply with the provisions of be recovered in the manner provided by clause 22 of Act No. 257 of this Act shall be liable to a penalty of not more than Ten Pounds, to 1882.

Commencement. 8. This Act shall come into force and take effect from a day to

be fixed by the Governor by Proclamation in the Governmat

Gazette.

In the name and on behalf of Her Majesty, I hereby assent to

this Bill.

KINTORE, Governor.

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By authority : C. E. BRIBTOW, Government Printer, North-tsrrace, Adelaide.