Food (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2000

P.U. (A) 384 FOOD ACT 1983 FOOD (AMENDMENT) (No. 3) REGULATIONS 2000 IN exercise of the powers conferred by section 34 of the Food Act 1983 (Act 281), the Minister makes the following regulations : Citation and commencement 1. (1) These regulation may be cited as the Food (Amendments) Regulations 2000. (2) These Regulations shall come into operation on a date to be appointed by the Minister by notification in the Gazette Amendment of regulation 360A 2. The Food Regulation 1985 [P.U. (A)437/85], which in these Regulations are referred to as the "principal Regulations", are amended in paragraph 360A(11)(a) by inserting after the word "carbonated natural mineral water" the words "in uniform lettering of not less than 12 point". Amendment of regulation 360B 3. Regulation 360B of the principal Regulations is amended (a) by inserting after subregulation (1) the following subregulations : "(1A) No person shall take any drinking water from any source for the purpose of trade or business unless a licence as set out in the Twenty eighth Schedule has been granted by the Director. (1B) An application for a licence under subregulation (1A) shall be made to the Director in such form and manner and be accompanied with such information and particulars, as the Director may specify, together with a processing fee of one hundred and thirty ringgit which is not refundable. (1C) In approving any application under subregulation (1A) the Director may impose any conditions as he thinks fit relating to the source, collection, preparation, processing and packaging of drinking water and the subsequent monitoring thereof. (1D) Any person who has been issued with a licence or licences under subregulation (1A) and who contravenes any of the terms and conditions imposed by the Director, may have his licence suspended or revoked, and the Director may amend at any time the conditions to which the licence is subject. (1E) The fee for a licence granted under subregulation (1A) shall be six thousand ringgit." ; and (b) in subregulation (4) (i) by substituting for paragraph (a) the following paragraph : "(a) the words "drinking water" or, where the product contain added carbon dioxide, the words "carbonated drinking water" in uniform lettering of not less than 12 point ;"; (ii) by substituting for the full stop appearing at the end of paragraph (b) the words " ;and ; and (iii) by inserting after paragraph (b) the following paragraph : "(c) the nature of source.". Amendment of Eleven Schedule 4. The Eleventh Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended in Table II by inserting after the word "sodium silicate" in column (2) against item "pasta" in column (1) the words "sulfur diokside or sulphites". New Twenty-eighth Schedule 5. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting after the Twenty-seventh Schedule the following new schedule : "TWENTY-EIGHTH SCHEDULE (Subregulation 360B (1A)) FOOD ACT 1983 FOOD REGULATIONS 1985 Licence No. LICENCE TO TAKE DRINKING WATER FROM ANY SOURCE FOR THE PURPOSE OF TRADE OR BUSINESS Licence is granted to ........................................................................................................ whose business address is .............................................................................................. to take drinking water from its source at .................................................. for the purpose of trade or business. This licence is subject to condition which may be imposed under subregulation 360B (1C). Date : ............................... Director of Health Services, Ministry of Health Malaysia" Made [ KKM-163(2/1)SK.III ; PN. (PU2)418/VI. ] DATO' CHUA JUI MENG, Minister of Health