Processed Food (Amendment) Act, 2012 (No. 2 of 2012)

JAMAICA NO. ~ - 2012 I assent, [L.S.] Governor-General ~ -m,., ~()I:l. AN ACT to Amend the Processed Food Act. [ C)Jf-'--ft.-~ I ~o,12- ] BE IT ENACTED by The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and the House of Representatives of Jamaica, and by the authority of the same, as follows:­ 1. This Act may be cited as the Processed Food (Amendment) Short title and Act, 2012, and shall be read and construed as one with the Processed construction. Food Act (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act) and all amendments thereto. 2 [No. The Processed Food (Amendment) Act, 2012 Amendment of 2. Section 12 of the principal Act is amended by section 12 of principal Act. renumbering the section as subsection (1) and inserting next after subsection (1) as renumbered the following as subsection (2)­ " (2) Where the Minister makes an order under subsection (1)(c), a notice of the order and its terms shall be published without delay in at least one daily newspaper circulated in Jamaica.", Amendment of 3. Section 15 of the principal Act is amended by ­ section 15 of principal Act. (a) deleting the words "two hundred dollars" and substituting therefor the words "three million dollars"; (b) deleting the words "with or without hard labour"; and (c) inserting immediately after the words "twelve months" the words "or both such fine and imprison­ ment", Rcpcaland 4. The principal Act is amended by deleting section 17 and replacement of inserting therein the following as sections 17 and 17 A ­section 17 of principalAct. «Penalties in 17, Regulations made under section 13 may Regulations. prescribe greater penalties than those specified in section 29 of the Interpretation Act, and the maximum penalty that may be so prescribed shall be a fine not exceeding three million dollars or imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months or both such fine and imprisonment .. .... ----- ..- ...... .­----~ 3 The Processed Food (Amendment) Act, 2012 [No.] 17A. The Minister may by order, subject to Ministermay affirmative resolution, amend any monetary penaltyby order amend specified in this Act .... monetary penalty. Passed in the House ofRepresentatives this 1st day ofMay, 2012. LLOYD B. SMITH Deputy Speaker. Passed in the Senate this 4th day of May, 2012. STANLEY ST. J. REDWOOD President. This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the authenticated impression of the foregoing Act, and has been found by me to be a true and correct printed copy ofthe said Act. Clerk to the Houses ofParliament.