PUBLIC HEALTH (IMPORTED FOOD) REGULATIONS, 1937, Dated APRIL 16, 1937, Made by the MINISTER OF HEALTH.
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1937/329 |
| Year | 1937 |
1937 No. 329
FOOD AND DRUGS
7. Imported Food (a)
(1) Generally
(i) England
THE PUBLIC HEALTH (IMPORTED FOOD) REGULATIONS, 1937, DATED APRIL 16, 1937, MADE BY THE MINISTER OF HEALTH.[These Regulations (S.R. & O. 1937, p. 1939), are printed as amended by Regulations, dated April 27 and May 25, 1948 (S.I. 1948 (Nos. 886 and 1121) I, pp. 1119–20).]
38 & 39 Vict. c. 55. 59 & 60 Vict. c. 19. 7 Edw. 7. c. 32. 26 Geo. 5 and 1 Edw. 8 c. 50.
The Minister of Health in the exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Public Health Act, 1875, the Public Health Act, 1896, the Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907 and the Public Health (London) Act, 1936 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes the following Regulations, with the consent of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise so far as they apply to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, that is to say:—
(a) Transfer of Functions Order see S.I. 1948 No. 107, p. 142 below.
PART I
Preliminary
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Public Health (Imported Food) Regulations, 1937, and shall come into operation on the 1st day of April, (a) 1938.
2.—(1) In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires:—
"The Minister" means the Minister of Food (b);
"Officer of Customs and Excise" includes any person acting under the authority of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Customs and Excise;
"Sanitary Authority" means a Port Health Authority and the council of a borough or urban or rural district which includes or abuts on any part of a Customs port which part is not within a Port Health District;
"District" means the district of a Sanitary Authority and in the case of a Sanitary Authority other than a Port Health Authority includes the waters of any Customs port abutting on any part of their district so far as such waters are not within a Port Health district;
"Medical Officer of Health" includes any duly qualified medical practitioner and any assistant officer appointed or employed by a Sanitary Authority to act in the execution of these Regulations;
"Local Authority" means the council of a borough or urban or rural district, not being a Sanitary Authority within the meaning of these Regulations and includes the common council of the City of London and the council of a metropolitan borough;
"Ship" includes a vessel or boat;
"Master" used in relation to a ship includes the officer or other person for the time being in charge or command of the ship;
"British Islands" means Great Britain and Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man;
"Oversea" means brought from a place situate elsewhere than in the British Islands;
"Article of food" means an article of food whether oversea or not which, as part of the cargo of a ship or aircraft is brought to, or delivered or landed at a place within England or Wales either as a place of actual or appointed destination, or as a place of deposit for the purpose of transmission to a place of actual or appointed destination elsewhere in the British Islands;
"Importer" includes any person who, whether as owner, consignor or consignee, agent or broker, is in possession of or in anywise entitled to the custody or control of any article of food; and "import" shall be construed accordingly;
"Export" means remove to a place not in the British Islands;
(a) The word "April" as substituted for "January" by Provisional Regulations dated December 2, 1937.
(b) The word "Food" as substituted for the word "Health" by S.I. 1948 No. 1121.
"Animal" includes a bull, cow, ox, heifer, calf, ram, ewe, wether, lamb, goat, kid, boar, sow, and hog;
"Pig" includes a boar, sow, and hog;
"Meat" means the flesh or other edible part of an animal and includes meat which has been cured or smoked but save as aforesaid does not include meat which has been cooked or otherwise treated or prepared;
"Meat product" means any of the articles specified in the Second Schedule to these Regulations;
"Prohibited meat" means any of the kinds of oversea meat specified in the First Schedule to these Regulations;
"Competent authority" means an authority having power under the laws in force in any country to examine articles of food and to certify as to their fitness for human consumption;
"Official certificate" means a certificate, label, mark, stamp, or other voucher which is affixed by a competent authority to any oversea meat or meat product or to a package containing any such meat or meat product and is for the time being recognised by the Minister as showing—
(a) that the meat to which it relates or the meat from which the meat product to which it relates was prepared, was derived from animals inspected ante and post mortem and passed in accordance with criteria satisfactory to the Minister; and
(b) that all necessary precautions for the prevention of danger to public health were taken in the dressing or preparing and packing of the meat or meat product.
(2) The recognition of an official certificate for the purpose of these Regulations shall be effected by means of a notice published in the London Gazette which shall specify the conditions (if any) subject to which the certificate is recognised; and any such notice may be varied or revoked by a subsequent notice published in the London Gazette.
(3) The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of these Regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.
3. From the date of commencement of these Regulations, the Public Health (Imported Food) Regulations, 1925 (a) and the Public Health (Imported Food) Amendment Regulations, 1933 (b) shall be revoked but without prejudice to the effect of any notice, certificate, proceedings or other thing given, issued, begun, or done in pursuance of such Regulations; and all Orders made under those Regulations or under any Regulations revoked thereby shall continue in force until altered or revoked as if they were made...
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