Food (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations, 2009

FOOD (AMENDMENT) (NO 3) REGULATIONS 2009 PU(A) 405/2009 IN exercise of the powers conferred by section 34 of the Food Act 1983[Act 281], the Minister makes the following regulations: 19 November 2009 1. Citation and commencement (1) These regulations may be cited as the Food (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2009. (2) These Regulations come into operation on 15 June 2010. 2. Amendment of regulation 14 The Food Regulations 1985[P.U. (A) 437/1985], which are referred to as the "principal Regulations" in these Regulations, are amended in regulation 14 by inserting after sub regulation (8) the following sub regulation: "(9) No person shall: (a) remove, erase, alter, obscure, superimpose or in any way tamper with any date marking on any package of food; (b) import, prepare for sale or sell any package of food which had expired; or (c) import, prepare for sale or sell any package of food which has been kept in a condition which contradicts with any storage conditions set out in the label of such food.". 3. New regulation 139A The principal Regulations are amended by inserting after regulation 139 the following regulation: "Controlled jelly confection. 139A. (1) Controlled jelly confection shall be any table confection for which a standard is prescribed in regulation 139 and is ready-to-eat, of the size and shape of less than or equal to 45 millimeters in diameter of a spherical product or similar to spherical product. Controlled jelly confection includes mini cups jelly and other similar products. (2) No person shall import, manufacture, advertise for sale or sell any controlled jelly confection.". 4. Amendment of Seventh Schedule Table 1 of the Seventh Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended by deleting item "Red 2G" and the items relating to it.