Foodstuffs, Cosmetics and Disinfectants Act, 1972 (Act No. 54 of 1972)23. Administration of Act by authorized local authority |
| (1) | The Minister may by notice in the Gazette authorise any local authority to enforce within its area of jurisdiction and through its duly authorised officers, such provisions of this Act as the Minister may specify in the notice. |
| (2) | The Minister may restrict such authority to such articles or classes of articles as he may specify in the notice, and may grant the authority subject to such further restrictions or such conditions as he may so specify. |
| (3) | The Minister may by notice in the Gazette withdraw or amend any notice published under subsection (1), after having given not less than three months’ notice of his intention to do so to the local authority concerned. |
| (4) | The Director-General may in writing permit a local authority authorised as contemplated in subsection (1), to transmit to any analyst, for analysis or examination free of charge, such number of samples as the Director-General may specify, and may at any time amend or withdraw such permission. |