Singapore legislation
Clause 6
Clause 6
Power to demand, select and take samples
(1)
On payment or tender to any person selling or making any food or appliance or to his agent or servant of the current market value of the samples in this section referred to, any officer may at any place demand and select and take or obtain samples of the said food or appliance for the purpose of analysis or examination.
(2)
Any such officer may require such person or his agent or servant to show and permit the inspection of the package in which such food or appliance is at the time kept, and may take therefrom the samples demanded.
(3)
Where any food or appliance is kept for retail sale in an unopened package, no person shall be required by any officer to sell less than the whole of the contents of such package.
(4)
Any person who refuses or neglects to comply with any demand or requisition made by an officer in pursuance of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.