100Amendments to the Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992
As from the notified day, the provisions of the Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992 (41 of 1992) (herein referred to as the principal Act) shall apply subject to the following amendments, namely:--
(a) throughout the principal Act, any reference to 'the Prevention of the Food Adulteration Act, 1954" (37 of 1954) shall be substituted by reference to "the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006";
(b) in section 12 of the principal Act, the reference to "any Food Inspector appointed under section 9 of the Prevention of the Food Adulteration Act, 1954 (37 of 1954)" shall be substituted by reference to "any Food Safety Officer appointed under the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006";
(c) throughout the principal Act, any reference to "Food Inspector" shall be substituted by the expression "the Food Safety Officer"; and
(d) in section 21 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1), the reference to clause (a) shall be substituted by the following, namely:
"(a) the Designated Officer or the Food Safety Officer directed under sub-section (5) of section 42 of the Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006; or".
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- 85 Power of Central Government to issue directions to Food Authority and obtain reports and returns
- 86 Power of Central Government to give directions to State Governments
- 87 Members, officers of Food Authority and Commissioner of Food Safety to be public servants
- 88 Protection of action taken in good faith
- 89 Overriding effect of this Act over all other food related laws
- 90 Transfer of existing employees of Central Government Agencies governing various foods related Acts or Orders to Food Authority
- 91 Power of Central Government to make rules
- 92 Power of Food Authority to make regulations
- 93 Laying of rules and regulations before Parliament
- 94 Power of State Government to make rules
- 95 Reward by State Government
- 96 Recovery of penalty
- 97 Repeal and savings
- 98 Transitory provisions for food standards
- 99 Milk and Milk Products Order, 1992 shall be deemed to be regulations made under this Act
- 100 Amendments to the Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant Foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) Act, 1992