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Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 Chapter IV

Title: General Provisions as to Articles of Food

State: Central

Year: 2006

.....foods, functional foods, proprietary foods, etc. Save as otherwise provided under this Act and regulations made thereunder, no person shall manufacture, distribute, sell or import any novel food, genetically modified articles of food, irradiated food, organic foods, foods for special dietary uses, functional foods, neutraceuticals, health supplements, proprietary foods and such other articles of food which the Central Government may notify in this behalf. Explanation.--For the purposes of this section,-- (1) "foods for special dietary uses or functional foods or nutraceuticals or health supplements" means: (a) foods which are specially processed or formulated to satisfy particular dietary requirements which exist because of a particular physical or physiological condition or specific diseases and disorders and which are presented as such, wherein the composition of these foodstuffs must differ significantly from the composition of ordinary foods of comparable nature, if such ordinary foods exist, and may contain one or more of the following ingredients, namely:-- (i) plants or botanicals or their parts in the form of powder, concentrate or extract in water, ethyl.....

Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 Section 22

Title: Genetically Modified Foods, Organic Foods, Functional Foods, Proprietary Foods, Etc.

State: Central

Year: 2006

Save as otherwise provided under this Act and regulations made thereunder, no person shall manufacture, distribute, sell or import any novel food, genetically modified articles of food, irradiated food, organic foods, foods for special dietary uses, functional foods, neutraceuticals, health supplements, proprietary foods and such other articles of food which the Central Government may notify in this behalf. Explanation.--For the purposes of this section,-- (1) "foods for special dietary uses or functional foods or nutraceuticals or health supplements" means: (a) foods which are specially processed or formulated to satisfy particular dietary requirements which exist because of a particular physical or physiological condition or specific diseases and disorders and which are presented as such, wherein the composition of these foodstuffs must differ significantly from the composition of ordinary foods of comparable nature, if such ordinary foods exist, and may contain one or more of the following ingredients, namely:-- (i) plants or botanicals or their parts in the form of powder, concentrate or extract in water, ethyl alcohol or hydro alcoholic extract, single or in.....

Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2006

.....results meet with objectives of food safety and the claims made in that behalf; (s) "food safety Management System" means the adoption of Good Manufacturing Practices, Good Hygienic Practices, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point and such other practices as may be specified by regulation, for the food business; (t) "food safety Officer" means an officer appointed under s.37; (u) "hazard" means a biological, chemical or physical agent in, or condition of, food with the potential to cause an adverse health effect; (v) "import" means bringing into India any article of food by land, sea or air; (w) "improvement notice" means a notice issued under s.32 of this Act; (x) "infant food" and "infant milk substitute" shall have the meanings assigned to them in clauses (f) and (g) of sub-section (1) of s.2 of the Infant Milk Substitutes, Feeding Bottles and Infant foods (Regulation of Production, Supply and Distribution) act, 1992 (41 of 1992), respectively; (y) "ingredient" means any substance, including a food additive used in the manufacture or preparation of food and present in the final product, possibly in a modified form; (z) "label" means any tag, brand, mark, pictorial or.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Part IX

Title: Safety

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....at Sea (known briefly as the Safety Convention) of 1960, replacing the Safety Convention of 1948. This Convention contains a provision for the enactment and promulgation by Contracting Governments of laws and regulations to give effect to its provisions. This Convention came into force on the 17-6-1960. For definition of "Safety Convention",see Section 3 (37). Section 283A - Definitions 1[283A. Definitions (1) In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires,- (a) "existing ship" or "existing vessel" means a ship or vessel which is not a new ship or a new vessel, (b) "new ship" or "new vessel" means a ship or vessel whose keel is laid or which is at a similar stage of construction on or after the material date as defined in sub-section (2). (2) For the purposes of sub-section (1) "material date",- (i) in relation to an Indian ship, means the 21st July, 1968: (ii) in relation to a foreign ship belonging to a country to which the Load Line Convention applies, means the date as from which it is declared under section 283 that the Government of such country has accepted the Load Line Convention or, as the case may be, that the said Convention has been applied.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Section 310

Title: Ships Exempt from Provisions Relating to Load Lines

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....complies with safety requirements which are adequate for the purposes for which the ship is intended and are such as to ensure the overall safety of the ship; (f) any ship which is not normally engaged on voyages to ports outside India but which in exceptional circumstances is required to undertake such voyage if the Central Government is satisfied that the ship complies with safety requirements which are adequate for such voyage.] ________________________ 1. Substituted for former Clause (a) by Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 1970 (25 of 1970), section 5(a) (w.r.e.f. 21-7-1968). 2. Clause (d) substituted and clauses (e) and (f) inserted thereafter, by Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 1970 (25 of 1970), section 5(a) (w.r.e.f. 21-7-1968). section 5(b) (w.r.e.f. 21-7-1968).

Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers-rights Act, 2001 Chapter III

Title: Registration of Plant Varieties and Essentially Derived Variety

State: Central

Year: 2001

.....contained in the Trade Marks Act, 1999 (47 of 1999), a denomination assigned to a variety shall not be registered as a trade mark under that Act, Section 18 - Form of application (1) Every application for registration under section 14 shall-- (a) be with respect to a variety; (b) state the denomination assigned to such variety by the applicant; (c) be accompanied by an affidavit sworn by the applicant that such variety does not contain any gene or gene sequence involving terminator technology; (d) be in such form as may be specified by regulations; (e) contain a complete passport data of the parental lines from which the variety has been derived along with the geographical location in India from where the genetic material has been taken and all such information relating to the contribution, if any, of any farmer, village community, institution or organisation in breeding, evolving or developing the variety; (f) be accompanied by a statement containing a brief description of the variety bringing out its characteristics of novelty, distinctiveness, uniformity and stability as required for registration; (g) be accompanied by such fees as may be prescribed; .....

Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers-rights Act, 2001 Section 15

Title: Registrable Varieties

State: Central

Year: 2001

.....that a trial of a new variety which has not been sold or otherwise disposed of shall not affect the right to protection: Provided further that the fact that on the date of filing the application for registration, the propagating or harvested material of such variety has become a matter of common knowledge other than through the aforesaid manner shall not affect the criteria of novelty for such variety; (b) distinct, if it is clearly distinguishable by at least one essential characteristic from any other variety whose existence is a matter of common knowledge in any country at the time of filing of the application. Explanation.-- For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that the filing of an application for the granting of a beerder's right to a new variety or for entering such variety in the official register of varieties in any convention country shall be deemed to render that variety a matter of common knowledge from the date of the application in case the application leads to the granting of the breeder's right or to the entry of such variety in such official register, as the case may be; (c) uniform, if subject to the variation that may be expected from the.....

Merchant Shipping Act, 1958 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 1958

.....To meet the immediate requirements of the country soon after independence the Merchant Shipping Laws. (Extension to Acceding States and Amendment) Act, 1949 was enacted, by which the British Merchant Shipping Acts 1894 to 1938 were extended to the Acceding States (later known as Part B States) and Indian Consular Officers were empowered to perform functions in relation to Indian ships outside India and provision was made to enable Government to prescribe the proper national colours for ships registered in India, The Control of Shipping Act, 1947, was another short-term measure which continued the war-time control over Indian shipping and controlled the coastal trade by a system of licensing. This Act, which has been renewed from time to time, is due to expire on the 31st March, 1958. 3. The present Bill revises and consolidates all laws in force in India relating to merchant shipping, whether passed by the British Parliament or the Indian Legislature, and makes provision for the matters discussed in the succeedihg paragraphs, which also indicate the principal changes made in the law ........... -Gaz. of Ind., 1958, Extra., Pt. II, S. 2, p. 203.Act 21 of 1966.- The minimum.....