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case of any Baker or Seller of Bread selling any Stale Bread deficient in weight without making up such deficiency as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding Five Pounds.
Country District Inspectors to be appointed.
- It shall be lawful for the Superintendent, and he is hereby required, in such Districts as he may think fit, but such Districts not to include any part of the City of Auckland or the Electoral Districts aforesaid, to appoint some Police Constable, or other fit and proper person to be Inspector of Bread; and such person so appointed shall perform the same duties within such District as he shall be appointed for as the Inspector of Weights and Measures or such other person as the Superintendent may appoint is required to perform within the City of Auckland or the Electoral Districts aforesaid.
Penalty for resisting Inspector in discharge of his duty.
- Every Person or Persons who shall wilfully resist, impede, or obstruct the Inspector of Weights and Measures or any other Inspector appointed under the Provisions of this Act, in the lawful execution of his duty, shall forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding Ten Pounds nor less than Two.
Adulterating Corn, Meal, or Flour.
- And be it enacted that if any person shall put into any corn, meal, or flour which shall be ground, dressed, bolted, or manufactured for sale, either at the time of grinding, dressing, bolting, or manufacturing the same, or at any other time, any ingredient or mixture whatsoever, not being the real genuine produce of the corn or grain which shall be so ground: or if any person shall knowingly sell or offer or expose for sale either separately or mixed, any meal or flour of one sort of corn or grain as the meal and flour of any other sort of corn and grain, or any ingredient whatsoever mixed with the meal or flour so sold or offered or exposed for sale, then and in every such case every person so offending shall, upon conviction, forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding Ten Pounds nor less than Two Pounds.
Penalties to be recovered in a summary way. Informations to be laid within a certain time.
- All penalties under this Act shall be recovered in a summary manner, provided always that no information shall be laid under this Act after the expiration of three months after any alleged offence against the provisions of this Act.
Interpretation of Act.
- In the Interpretation of this Act the term "Fancy Bread" shall mean all Bread usually sold as "Cottage Loaves," "Twists," "French Loaves," and all small Bread not exceeding one pound in weight. The term "Stale Bread" shall mean all Bread that may have been manufactured for a period of twenty-four hours and upwards.
Commencement of Act.
- This Act shall commence and take effect from and after the first day of January, 1864.
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Auckland Provincial Gazette 1864, No 2
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