Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act 1907
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1907 c. 32 |
| Year | 1907 |
Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907.
(7 Edw. 7.) CHAPTER 32.
An Act to enable regulations to be made for the prevention of danger arising to public health from the importation, preparation, storage, and distribution of articles of food.
[28th August 1907]
B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Power to make regulations as to the importation, preparation, storage, and distribution of articles of food.
(1) The power of making regulations under the Public Health Act, 1896 , and the enactments mentioned in that Act, shall include the power of making regulations authorising measures to be taken for the prevention of danger arising to Public health from the importation, preparation, storage, and distribution of articles of food or drink (other than drugs or water) intended for sale for human consumption, and, without prejudice to the generality of the powers so conferred, the regulations may—
(a ) provide for the examination and taking of samples of any such articles;
(b ) apply, as respects any matters to be dealt with by the regulations, any provision in any Act of Parliament dealing with the like matters, with the necessary modifications and adaptations;
(c ) provide for the recovery of any charges authorised to be made by the regulations for the purposes of the regulations or any services performed thereunder.
(2) For the purposes of regulations made under this Act, articles commonly used for the food or drink of man shall be deemed to be intended for sale for human consumption unless the contrary is proved.
(3) In the application of this Act to Scotland, Part IV. of the Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897 , shall be substituted for the Public Health Act, 1896.
2 Publication of regulations.
2. All regulations made under this Act shall be laid as soon as may be before Parliament, and the Rules Publication Act, 1893, shall apply to such regulations as if they were statutory rules within the meaning of section one of that Act, and that Act as so applied shall, notwithstanding anything in subsection five of section one thereof, extend to Scotland, with the substitution...
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