The Prevention of Food Adulteration (Maharashtra Amendment) Act, 1969

1. (1) This Act may be called the Prevention of Food Adulteration (Maharashtra Amendment) Act, 2006.
2. (2) It shall come into force on such date, as the State Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint.

For section 20 of the Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954, in its application to the State of Maharashtra, the following section shall be substituted, namely:— “20.

1. (1) All offences punishable under this Act shall be cognizable and non-bailable.
2. (2) Any police officer not below the rank of an Inspector of Police, as may be specified by the State Government, by notification in the Official Gazette may, arrest without warrant any person against whom a reasonable complaint has been made or credible information has been received of his having been concerned in any of the offences punishable under this Act.”.

In section 11 of the principal Act, in sub-section (5), in clause (a), for the words “local authority” the words “State Government” shall be substituted.

In section 24 of the principal Act, in sub-section (2), in clause (d), for the words “shall be paid to a local authority on realisation” the words “shall, on realisation, be paid either to a local authority, or where any authority or officer of the State Government is appointed as the local authority, be credited to the Consolidated Fund of the State” shall be substituted.

On the appointment of a local authority in relation to any local area in the State of Maharashtra and of a Food Inspector for such local area under the principal Act as amended by this Act, anything done or any action taken under the principal Act before the commencement of this Act by a local authority or by any Food Inspector shall, so far as it is not inconsistent with the provisions of the principal Act as amended by this Act, be deemed to have been done or taken under the provisions of the principal Act as amended by this Act, by the local authority or Food Inspector appointed after such commencement unless and until superseded by anything done or action taken under the principal Act as amended by this Act; and accordingly, any reference to the local authority or to any Food Inspector in any law for the time being in force or in any instrument or other document or in any legal proceedings to which a local authority or Food Inspector is a party before such commencement shall, after the commencement of this Act in relation to a local area, be construed as a reference to the local authority or, as the case may be, Food Inspector, appointed after such commencement by the State Government in relation to such local area.