Prevention of Food Adulteration Act,1954 Section 9 - Bare Act

¹[9. Food inspectors

( 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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1. Substituted by Act 49 of 1964, section. 5, for sections 8 and 9 (w.e.f. 1-3-1965).