Food Act 1998 (Act No. 1 of 1998).

An Act to provide for various matters relative to control of food safety and hygiene. Food is defined in section 2. Section 3 provides for designation by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health Quality of Life of qualified public officers to be authorized officers for the purpose of ensuring compliance with this Act. Powers of those officers are defined in section 4. Section 5 concerns the determination of fitness of food and measures if food is considered unfit for human consumption. Where the Permanent Secretary has reasonable grounds to believe that the owner, occupier or licensee of any premises has failed to comply with any Regulations made under this Act, the Permanent Secretary may serve on the owner, occupier or licensee, as the case may be, an improvement notice in the form specified in the Seventh Schedule to this Act. An authorized officer may serve a prohibition order or an emergency closing order in the form specified in the Eighth Schedule respectively ninth Schedule. The Minister may make such regulations as he thinks fit for the purposes of this Act and in particular but without prejudice to the generality of his power he may make Regulations regarding matters specified in section 18. (20 sections completed by 10 Schedules)