The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006 — back to Table of Contents
Section 41. Power of search, seizure, investigation, prosecution and procedure thereof
Notwithstanding the registration exemption under section 31(2), a Food Safety Officer may search any place and seize food or an adulterant where there is reasonable doubt of an offence relating to food, informing the Designated Officer in writing of the action taken; a search is not irregular merely because the witnesses are not local inhabitants. Save as otherwise expressly provided in the Act, the Code of Criminal Procedure provisions on search, seizure, summons, investigation and prosecution apply, as far as may be, to actions taken by the Food Safety Officer.
