Singapore legislation
Clause 38
Clause 38
Power of Minister to make regulations
(1)
The Minister may make regulations —
to prescribe the standard of strength, weight, quality or quantity of any food or of any ingredient or component part thereof;
to prohibit the addition or use of any specified thing or of more than the specified quantity or proportion thereof to any food or appliance;
to prohibit any modes of manufacture, preparation or preservation of any food, or appliance;
to secure the cleanliness and freedom from contamination of any food in the course of its manufacture, preparation, storage, packing, carriage, delivery, exposure for sale or sale and to secure the cleanliness of places, receptacles, appliances and vehicles used in such manufacture, preparation, storage, packing, carriage, delivery, exposure for sale or sale and to secure the proper conduct of places in which the sale or preparation for sale of food is carried on and for these purposes to require any person to submit to a medical examination;
to prescribe the mode of labelling food sold in packages or otherwise, and the matter to be contained or not to be contained in such labels;
to prescribe the method of analysis of any food and form of certificate of analysis;
to fix the fees to be paid in respect of the analysis of the food by an analyst and for any licence or registration issued or effected under this Act and for copies of a certificate of analysis;
to prohibit or regulate the sale, advertisement for sale, or importation of specified articles of food;
to prohibit the sale of specified food or appliances otherwise than by weight;
to prohibit or regulate whether by licence or otherwise the importation or sale of separated or skimmed milk or filled milk or whey;
to prescribe that any act or omission, or any contravention of the provisions of any regulation shall be an offence and to provide for the imposition of a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars; and
generally to carry out the purposes of this Act.
(2)
Any such regulation may be made applicable either to foods or appliances generally or to specified foods or appliances only.
(3)
All regulations made under this Act shall be published in the Gazette and shall be presented to Parliament as soon as may be after publication.
(4)
Notwithstanding anything contained in any regulation made under this section, any person may, at any time within twelve months after the date of the publication in the Gazette of such regulation, sell any food the sale of which is otherwise lawful, if he proves that at the said date such food or appliance was part of the existing stock-in-trade in Singapore of any person carrying on business there and that since the said date no act has been done whereby the said food or appliance fails to conform to the requirements of the said regulation.
(5)
For the purposes of subsection (4) any goods purchased before the said date for importation into Singapore shall be deemed to form part of the purchasers’ stock-in-trade in Singapore.