s 3 Appointment of analysts and authorized officers
(1) The Minister may appoint such number of analysts as he may consider necessary for the purposes of this Act and may make regulations concerning their qualifications, conduct and duties, and shall prepare or cause to be prepared a list of appointed analysts and revise it as the circumstances may require.
(2) The Minister may appoint such number of authorized officers as he may consider necessary for the purposes of this Act and every authorized officer shall be issued with a Certificate of
Authorization which certificate shall in any legal proceedings under this Act be admissible in evidence and shall be prima facie evidence of the facts so certified.
(3) The Minister may, in relation to any matter which appears to him to affect the general interests of the consumer, authorize any public officer to procure for analysis samples of any food, and thereupon that officer shall have all the powers of an authorized officer under this Act, and this Act shall apply as if the officer was an authorized officer.
(4) The analysts and authorized officers appointed under this section shall be deemed to be public servants within the meaning of the Penal Code [Act 574].
Malay text (authoritative)
Pelantikan juruanalisis dan pegawai diberi kuasa
(1) Menteri boleh melantik seberapa ramai juruanalisis sebagaimana yang difikirkannya perlu bagi maksud Akta ini dan boleh membuat peraturan-peraturan mengenai kelayakan, kelakuan dan tugas mereka, dan hendaklah menyediakan atau menyebabkan disediakan suatu senarai juruanalisis yang dilantik itu dan menyemaknya semula mengikut kehendak hal keadaan.
(2) Menteri boleh melantik seberapa ramai pegawai diberi kuasa sebagaimana yang difikirkannya perlu bagi maksud Akta ini dan tiaptiap pegawai diberi kuasa itu hendaklah diberi Perakuan Kuasa dan perakuan itu boleh dalam mana-mana prosiding undang-undang di bawah Akta ini diterima sebagai keterangan dan hendaklah menjadi keterangan prima facie mengenai fakta yang diperakui itu.
(3) Menteri boleh, berhubung dengan apa-apa perkara yang pada hematnya menjejaskan kepentingan am pengguna, memberi kuasa kepada mana-mana pegawai awam untuk mendapatkan bagi maksud analisis sampel apa-apa makanan, dan dengan itu pegawai tersebut hendaklah mempunyai segala kuasa yang dipunyai oleh seorang pegawai yang diberi kuasa di bawah Akta ini, dan Akta ini terpakai seolah-olah pegawai itu adalah seorang pegawai diberi kuasa.
(4) Juruanalisis dan pegawai diberi kuasa yang dilantik di bawah seksyen ini hendaklah disifatkan sebagai pekhidmat awam mengikut pengertian Kanun Keseksaan [Akta 574].
Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.
Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).
