Regulations, 1998

L.N. 209 of 1998

FOOD, DRUGS AND DRINKING WATER ACf

(CAP. 231)

511",.1'5. Salted Meet end other Prtpered Meat (A mendment)

Regulations, 1998

IN exercise of the powers confw.w by sections 12 and 28 of the

Food, Drop and Drinking Water Act, the Minister of Health, Care of

the Elderly and Family Affairs, on the advicc of the Council of Health

and of the Malta Standardisation Authority, has made the following

regulations: -

These regulations may be cited as the Sausages. Salted Meat c

and other Prepared Meat (Amendment) Regulations, 1998, and shall be

read and construed as one with the Sausages. Salted Meat and other

~Mcat Rcgulatioos.lm .hcreinafterrefw,ed toM "the principal !..N: 15601 ,m

regulations"

Regulation 4 of the priDCipal regulations shall be deleted.

For regulation 6 of the principal regulations there shall be s

substituted the following: -

"6: (I) No person shall use any premises as a factory or

any other similar establishment. by whatever name called, unless

there is in respect of such premises I valid liccnce for the pwpose

issued by the Superintendent of Public Health, and no person may

open or carry on any such establishment unless he is in possession

of a valid licence for the purpose by the SuperintendeDt of Public

Health.

(2) No licence shall be granted or renewed under

paragraph (1) of this regulation if the premiSC$, equipment, facilities

as well as personnel are not sucb as to provide such standard of

quality of sausages. hamburgers. beefburgers, and similarly

prepared meat, salted meat or meat otherwise prepared as the

Superinlendcnt of Public Health deems to be satisfactory,

(3) The Superintendent of Public Health may , in

granting or renewing any licence under paragraph (I) of this

regulation, impose any condition as be may deem fit and may

restrict the activities that may be carried on in the premises.

(4) Where any premises are used or any act is done in

contravention of any condition or restriction contained in a licence

which had bot" granted or renewed under paIllgreph (1) of this

regulation, any premises so 1lsed and any act so done shall be

deemed to have botn used or done without the licence required by

this regulation.

(5) Any licence granted under the provision of

paragraph (1) of this regulation sballlapse on the 31st December

of the year in which it is issued, but such licence may be renewed

by the Superintendent of Public Health from year to year.".

Regulation 8 of the principal regulations shall be deleted.

S, For regulation 10 of the principal regulations there shall be

substituted the foUowing:-

" 10 . No person shall sell any sausages, hamburgers,

beefburgers, salted meat or meat otherwise prepared, unless the

product complies in all respects with the provisions ofregulations

6 and 7 of these regulations, and unless the product has been

proce ssed at premises licensed in accoroancc: therewith ....

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