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FOOD SAFETY ORDINANCE
Ord. No. 5 of 2011
A261


HONG KONG SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION


Ordiance No. 5 of 2011

L.S.

Donald TSANG
Chief Executive
7 April 2011

An Ordinance to establish a registration scheme for food importers and food distributors; to require the keeping of records by persons who acquire, capture, import or supply food; to enable food import controls to be imposed; to re-enact Part VA of the Public Health and Municipal Services Ordinance; to make consequential and related amendments to that Ordinance and another Ordinance and to provide for incidental and connected matters.

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Enacted by the Legislative Council.

PART 1
Preliminary

1. Short title and commencement

(1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Food Safety Ordinance.

(2) This Ordinance (except Part 3 and Division 1 of Part 2) comes into operation on a day to be appointed by the Secretary for Food and Health by notice published in the Gazette.

(3) Part 3 and Division 1 of Part 2 come into operation 6 months after the day on which section 7 comes into operation.

2. Interpretation

(1) In this Ordinance—

“air transhipment cargo” (航空轉運貨物) has the meaning given by section 2 of the Import and Export Ordinance (Cap. 60);