Amending Regulations under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act




JAN. 7.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 11
Amending Regulations under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908.
(H.-2/28.)
CHARLES FERGUSSON, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 21st day of December, 1925.
Present:
THE HONOURABLE J. G. COATES PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.
IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908, and of all other powers enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulations in amendment of and in addition to the regulations made under the said Act on the twenty-third day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four, and published in the Gazette on the twenty-sixth day of the same month at page 1505 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal regulations”), and doth declare that the regulations hereby made shall be read together with and be deemed part of the principal regulations:-

  1. Regulation 10 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following clause:-
    “Labelling of Preservatives.
    “(7.) In the label attached to every package containing any preservative substance sold for the purpose of being added or applied to any food there shall be written in bold-faced sans-serif capital letters of not less than ten points face-measurement a statement or declaration in the following form:-
    “This preservative contains [Here insert the chemical name or names of the preservative substance or substances contained in the preparation].”
  2. (1.) Regulation 11 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following clause:-
    “(4.) There shall be written in the label attached to every package containing any substance sold for the purpose of artificially colouring food or of artificially flavouring food, in uniform bold-faced sans-serif capital letters of not less than six points face-measurement, a statement in such one of the three forms following, as the case may require:-
    “Artificial [or alternatively Imitation] Food Colouring.”
    “Artificial [or alternatively Imitation] Food Flavouring.”
    “Artificial [or alternatively Imitation] Food Colouring and Flavouring.”
    (2.) Regulation 11 of the principal regulations is hereby further amended by substituting for the phrase “Regulation 75 (3) (c)” the phrase “Regulation 75.”
  3. Clause (2) of Regulation 12 of the principal regulations is hereby revoked, and the following clause substituted therefor:-
    “(2.) There shall be written in the label attached to every package containing any food mixed with an artificial sweetening substance, in bold-faced sans-serif capital letters of not less size than ten points face-measurement, a statement or declaration in the following form:-
    “Contains [Here insert the chemical name of the sweetening substance].”
  4. Regulation 26 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following paragraph:-
    “(b.) Wherever in these regulations a number of parts per centum is referred to without its being expressly stated whether the parts are by weight or by volume, parts by weight shall be intended.”
  5. Regulation 28 of the principal regulations is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following clause:-
    “Milk-bread.
    “(17.) (a.) Milk-bread shall be white bread or bread to which milk, skimmed milk, condensed, dried, or separated milk has been added. It shall otherwise conform to the standard of white bread.
    “(b.) Labelling.-The word ‘milk-bread’ or any word or expression implying or suggesting that milk or any component part of


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🏥 Amending Regulations under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1908

🏥 Health & Social Welfare
21 December 1925
Regulations, Food, Drugs, Labelling, Preservatives, Colouring, Flavouring, Sweetening, Milk-bread
  • Charles Fergusson, Governor-General
  • The Honourable J. G. Coates, Presiding in Council