【正文】 tructure, permanent or otherwise together with the land on which the building, tent or other structure is situated and any adjoining land used in connection therewith and any vehicle, conveyance, vessel or aircraft。 and (b) for the purposes of section 4 any street, open space or place of public resort or bicycle or any vehicle used for or in connection with the preparation, preservation, packaging, storage, conveyance, distribution or sale of any food。 preparation includes manufacture, processing and any form of treatment。 seal includes the detention. in bulk. of any food, a sample of which has been taken for analysis, pending the result of the analysis。 sell includes offer, keep, expose for sale, transmit, convey, deliver or prepare for sale or exchange, dispose of for any consideration whatsoever, or transmit, convey or deliver in pursuance of such sale, exchange, or disposal。 vegetable substance means any plant or part of a plant, and includes the stern, root, bark, tuber, rhizome, leaf, stalk, inflorescene, bud, shoot, flowers, fruit and seed, or an extract thereof.PART IIADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENTSection 3 Appointment of Analysts and Authorised Officers (1) The Minister may appoint such number of analysts as he may consider necessary for the purposes of this Act and may make regulations concerning their qualifications, conduct and duties, and shall prepare or cause to be prepared a list of appointed analysts and revise it as the circumstances may require. (2) The Minister may appoint such number of authorised officers as he may consider necessary for the purpose of this Act and every authorised officer shall be issued with a Certificate of Authorisation which certificate shall in any legal proceedings under this Act be admissible in evidence and shall be prima facie evidence of the facts so certified. (3) The Minister may, in relation to any matter which appears to him to affect the general interests of the consumer, authorise any public officer to procure for analysis samples of any food, and thereupon that officer shall have all the powers of an authorised officer under this Act, and this Act shall apply as if the officer was an authorised officer. (4) The analysts and authorised officers appointed under this section shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of the Penal Code.Section 4 Power of Authorised Officer (1) An authorised officer may, at any hour reasonable for the proper and better performance of his duty (a) enter any premises where he believes any food to which this Act applies is prepared, preserved, packaged, stored, conveyed, distributed or sold, examine any such food and take samples thereof, and examine anything that he believes is used, or capable of being used for such preparation, preservation, packaging, storing, conveying, distribution or sale。 (b) stop, search or detain any aircraft, ship or vehicle in which he believes on reasonable grounds that any food to which this Act applies is being conveyed and examine any such food and take samples thereof for the purposes of this Act。 (c) open and examine any package which he believes contains any food to which this Act applies。 (d) examine any books, documents or other records found in any premises mentioned in paragraph (a) that he believes contain any information relevant to the enforcement of this Act with respect to any food to which this Act applies and make copies thereof or take extracts there from。 (e) demand the production of the National Registration Identity Card, the Business Registration Certificate or any other relevant document which the authorised officer may require。 (f) seize and detain for such time as may be necessary any food by means of or in relation to which he believes any provision of this Act has been contravened。 or (g) mark, seal or otherwise secure, weigh, count or measure any food or appliance, the preparation, preservation, packaging, storage, conveyance, distribution or sale of which is or appears to be contrary to this Act. (2) An authorised officer acting under this section shall, if so required, produce his Certificate of Authorisation. (3) Any owner, occupier or person in charge of any premises entered by any authorised officer pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection (1), or any person found therein, who does not give to the authorised officer all reasonable assistance in his power or furnish him with all the information as he may reasonably require, mits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to fine or to both. (4) Any person who obstructs or impedes any authorised officer in the course of his duty or prevents or attempts to prevent the execution by the authorised officer of his duty mits an offence and is liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to fine or to both. (5) An authorised officer may arrest without warrant any person whom he has reason to believe to have mitted an offence under this Act or any regulation made thereunder if the person fails to furnish his name and address or there are reasonable grounds for believing that he has furnished a false name or address or that he is likely to abscond: Provided that when any person has been arrested as aforesaid he shall thereafter be dealt with as provided by the Criminal Procedure Code.