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Subs. by Act 49 of 1964, s. 13, for “and the fees payable therefor” (w.e.f. 1-3-1965). 20 1[(ee) defining the laboratories where samples of articles of food or adulterants may be analysed by public analysts under this Act]; (f) prohibiting the sale or defining the conditions of sale of any substance which may be injurious to health when used as food or restricting in any manner its use as an ingredient in the manufacture of any article of food or regulating by the issue of licences the manufacture or sale of any article of food; (g) defining the conditions of sale or conditions for licence of sale of any article of food in the interest of public health; (h) specifying the manner in which containers for samples of food purchased for analysis shall be sealed up or fastened up; 1[(hh) defining the methods of analysis;] (i) specifying a list of permissible preservatives, other than common salt and sugar, which alone shall be used in preserved fruits, vegetables or their products or any other article of food as well as the maximum amounts of each preservative; (j) specifying the colouring matter and the maximum quantities thereof which may be used in any article of food; (k) providing for the exemption from this Act or of any requirements contained therein and subject to such conditions, if any, as may be specified, of any article or class of articles of food. (l) prohibiting or regulating the manufacture, transport or sale of any article known to be used as an adulterant of food; (m) Prohibiting or regulating— (i) the addition of any water, or other diluent or adulterant to any article of food; (ii) the abstraction of any ingredient from any article of food; (iii) the sale of any article of food to which such addition or from which such abstraction has been made or which has been otherwise artificially treated; (iv) the mixing of two or more articles of food which are similar in nature or appearance. (n) providing for the destruction of such articles of food as are not in accordance with the provisions of this Act or of the rules made thereunder. 2[(2) Every rule made by the Central Government under this act shall be laid as soon as may be after it is made before each House of Parliament while it is in session for a total period of thirty days 3[which may be comprised in one session or in two or more successive sessions, and if, before the expiry of the session immediately following the session or the successive sessions aforesaid] both Houses agree in making and modification in the rule or both Houses agree that the rule should not be made, the rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect as the case may be; so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under that rule.]