High Court of Punjab and HaryanaCRM-A/619/2010dismissed

Ut Of Chandigarh v. Jagdish Parshad

2025-03-06Mr. Justice Jasjit Singh Bedi14 pages

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$?66 ' .(1) The Central Government or the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint such persons as it thinks fit, having the prescribed qualifications to be Food Inspectors for such local areas as may be assigned to them by the Central Government or the State Government, as the case may be:Provided that no person who has any financial interest in the manufacture, import or sale of any article of food shall be appointed to be a Food Inspector under this section.(2)Every Food Inspector shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (45 of 1860) and shall be officially subordinate to such authority as the Government appointing him, may specify in this behalf.] (!) *

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,Nothing contained in this Act shall be held to prevent a purchaser of any article of food other than a Food Inspector [or a recognised consumer

association, whether the purchaser is a member of that association or not] [ Substituted by Act 34 of 1976, Section 9, for certain words (w.e.f. 141976).] from having such article analysed by the public analyst on payment of such fees as may be prescribed and from receiving from the public analyst a report of his analysis:

Provided that [such purchaser or recognised consumer association shall inform the vendor at the time of purchase of his or its intention] to have such article so analysed: Provided further that the provisions of subsection (1), subsection (2) and subsection (3) of section 11 shall, as far as may be, apply to a [purchaser of article of food or recognised consumer association who or which intends] to have such articles so analysed, as they apply to a Food Inspector who takes a sample of food for analysis:

Provided also that if the report of the public analyst shows that the article of food is adulterated, the [purchaser or recognised consumer association shall be entitled to get refund of the fees paid by him or it] under this section. [ Explanation.For the purposes of this section and section 20, "recognised consumer association" means a voluntary consumer association registered under the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956) or under any other law for the time being in force.] !"-.

, 1[(1) No prosecution for an offence under this Act, not being an offence under this Sec. 14 or Sec. 14A] shall be instituted except by, or with the written consent of, 2[the Central Government or the State Government 3[***] or a person authorized in this behalf by general or special order, by the Central Government or the State Government 2 [***]: Provided that a prosecution for an offence under this Act may be instituted by a purchaser [or recognized consumer association] referred instituted to in Sec. 12 [if he or it

produces] in Court a copy of the report of the public analyst along with the complaint.

[(2) No Court interior to that of Metropolitan Magistrate or a, Judicial Magistrate of the first class shall try any offence under this Act.

(3) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (2 of 1974), an offence, punishable under subsection (1AA) of Sec. 16 shall be cognizable and nonbailable.] $ * )

( //0 1 ,, A person shall not be qualified for appointment as Food Inspector unless he "

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[Provided further that a person who is a qualified Sanitary Inspector having experience as such for a minimum period of one year and has received at least three months training in whole or in part in food inspection and sampling work, may be eligible for appointment as Food Inspector, upto the period ending on the 31st March, 1985 and may continue as such if so appointed even though he does not fulfil the qualifications laid down in clauses (a) to (c):] Provided also that nothing in this rule shall be construed to disqualify any person who is a Food Inspector on the commencement of the Prevention of Food Adulteration (Amendment) Rules, 1980 from continuing as such after such commencement.].

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