Health Act, 1953

Prohibition or control of use of certain verminicides.

60.—(1) The Minister may make regulations for the prohibition or control of the use in the destruction of animals of substances containing live cultures of organisms pathogenic to man.

(2) Regulations under this section may, in particular, make provision for all or any of the following matters:

(a) the enforcement and execution of the regulations—

(i) by officers of the Minister,

(ii) by health authorities and their officers,

(b) the prohibition of the use in the destruction of animals of substances containing live cultures of organisms pathogenic to man save subject to specified conditions (including the grant of a licence for such use),

(c) the determination of the classes of persons to whom licences under the regulations are to be granted,

(d) the prescribing of conditions governing the grant, retention and renewal of licences under the regulations,

(e) the refusal or revocation of licences under the regulations,

(f) the imposition of charges in respect of the grant, retention or renewal of licences under the regulations.

(3) A person who contravenes a regulation under this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.

(4) An offence under this section may be prosecuted by the Minister or by the health authority in whose functional area the offence is committed.