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trol, of the imported food。 food includes every article manufactured, sold or represented for use as food or drink for human consumption or which enters into or is used in the position, preparation, preservation, of any food or drink and includes confectionery, chewing substances and any ingredient of such food, drink, confectionery or chewing substances。 Director General means the Director General of Health of the Ministry of Health。 authorised officer means any medical officer of health or any health inspector of the Ministry of Health or of any local. authority, or any suitably qualified person, appointed by the Minister to be an authorised officer under section 3。 appliance includes the whole or any part of any utensil, machinery, instrument, apparatus, or article used or intended for use, in or for the making, preparing, keeping, selling or supplying of any food。 animal includes any quadruped or bird either domesticated or otherwise, fish, reptile or insect。編號:時間:2021年x月x日書山有路勤為徑,學海無涯苦作舟頁碼:第21頁 共21頁Food Act 1983An act to protect the public against health hazards and fraud in the preparation, sale and use of food, and for matters incidental thereto or connected therewith. [Come into force 1101985. . (B) 446] BE IT ENACTED by the Duli Yang Maha Mulia Seri Paduka Baginda Yang diPertuan Agong with the advice and consent of the Dewan Negara and Dewan Rakyat in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:Arrangement of Sections:PART ISectionPRELIMINARY1. Short title, application and mencement.2. Interpretation.PART IIADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT3. Appointment of analysts and authorised officers.4. Powers of authorised officers.5. Power to take sample.6. Procedure for taking sample.7. Certificate for analyst.8. Power to call for information.9. Power of the Director General to obtain particulars of certain food ingredients.10. Director may order premises or appliances be put into clean and sanitary condition.11. Closure of insanitary premises.12. Conviction published in newspapers.PART IIIOFFENCES AND EVIDENCE13. Adulteration.14. Prohibition against the sale of food not of the nature, substance or quality demanded.15. Labelling, etc., not plying with standard of food.16. False labelling, etc.17. Advertisement.18. Power of court to order licence to be cancelled and food to be disposed of.19. Prosecutions.20. Certificate of analyst to be prima facie evidence.21. Court may order independent analysis.22. Presumption of sale, etc.23. No defence that offence not wilfully mitted.24. Sales, etc., by agent or servant.25. Presumption for human consumption.26. Nondisclosure of information.27. Manufacturing process and trade secret.28. Liability of importer, manufacturer or packer.PART IVIMPORTATION, WARRANTY AND DEFENCES29. Importation.30. Warranty.31. Reliance on written warranty a good defence.32. Penalty for false warranty.PART VMISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS33. Power to pound.34. Power to make regulations.35. Repeal and savings.36. Extended application of Act.PART IPRELIMINARYSection 1 Short Title, Application and Commencement (1) This Act may be cited as the Food Act 1983 and shall apply throughout Malaysia. (2) This Act shall e into force on such date as the Minister may notification in the Gazette appoint and the Minister may appoint different dates for the ing into force of this Act for different States in Malaysia or for different provisions of this Act.Section 2 InterpretationIn this Act, unless the context otherwise requires advertisement includes any representation by any means whatsoever for the purposes of promoting directly or indirectly the sale or other disposal of any food。 analyst means any analyst appointed under section 3。 whole or part of which are used for human consumption。 approved laboratory means any laboratory approved by the Minister。 Director means the Director of Health Services of the Ministry of Health。 entertainment includes any social or other form of gathering, amusement, festival, exhibition, performance, game, petition, sport or trial. of skill。 import means to bring or cause to be brought into Malaysia by land, water or air for the purpose of sale from any place outside Malaysia but does not include the bringing into Malaysia of any food which it is proved is intended to be taken out of Malaysia on the same vehicle, vessel, or aircraft on which such food was brought into Malaysia without any transhipment or landing。 label includes any tag, brand, mark, pictorial or other descriptive matter, written, printed, stencilled, marked, painted, embossed or impressed on, or attached to or included in, belonging to, or acpanying any food。 package includes anything in which or any means by which food is wholly or partly cased, covered, enclosed, contained, placed or otherwise packed in any way whatsoever and includes any basket, pail, tray or receptacle of any kind whether opened or closed。 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。 seal includes the detention. in bulk. of any food, a sample of which has been taken for analysis, pending the result of the analysis。 vegetable substance means any plant or part of a plant, and includes the stern, root, bark, tuber, rhiz