Flour (Composition) Regulations, 1956
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1956/1183 |
| Year | 1956 |
1956 No. 1183
COMPOSITION
The Flour (Composition) Regulations, 195631stJuly 1956
2ndAugust 1956
30thSeptember 1956
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Minister of Health, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 4 and 123 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1955(b), and of all other powers them enabling in that behalf, having consulted with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests substantially affected by these regulations, hereby make the following regulations:—
1. These regulations shall come into operation on the 30th day of September, 1956 ; and may be cited as the Flour (Composition) Regulations, 1956.
2.—(1) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
"the Minister" means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food ;
"creta praeparata" means the substance so described in the British Pharmacopoeia or the British Pharmaceutical Codex, which conforms to the standards laid down therein and which is of granularity standard—
(i) not more than 0·1 per centum to remain on a 100 mesh sieve, and
(ii) not more than 0·2 per centum to remain on a 240 mesh sieve;
(a) 4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 30.
(b) 4 & 5 Eliz. 2. c. 16.
"flour" means the product derived from or separated during the milling or grinding of wheat (other than wheat offals and wheat germ separated for disposal as such) and includes meal and any flour derived wholly or partly from wheat that, before being ground or milled, has been malted or subjected to any process, but does not include semolina ;
"food and drugs authority" has the meaning assigned to it by section 83 of the Food and Drugs Act, 1955.
(2) The Interpretation Act, 1889(a), shall apply for the interpretation of these regulations as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
3. Each food and drugs authority shall enforce and execute the provisions of these regulations in their area.
4. Subject to the provisions of these regulations, any flour described in the first column of the Schedule to these regulations which is intended for sale for human consumption shall contain the substances specified in relation thereto in the second column of the said Schedule.
5. No person shall sell, offer or expose or have in his possession for sale, consign or deliver any flour which does not comply with the immediately preceding regulation:
Provided that this regulation shall not apply as respects any sale, offer or exposure or...
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