Section 21

Any inspector may require any registered canner to open any package and may remove from any registered cannery any can containing, purporting or suspected to contain canned pineapple and shall not be liable for any expenses incurred in the opening or reclosing of cases or packages for examination or for any injury, loss, damage or delay caused thereby.

The inspector shall acknowledge in writing receipt of all samples taken by him for examination and the Board shall, if requested to do so, pay for such samples at the market price as notified by the representative association of the canning branch of the pineapple industry:

Provided that this subsection shall not apply to such routine samples as an inspector may be entitled to take without payment under regulations made under this Act.

Pineapple Industry 21

Every person duly registered under this Act shall, on request by the Chief Inspector, produce for inspection at such time and place as he may specify such books and other documents as are required to be maintained by him for the purposes of this Act and the regulations made thereunder.

Any inspector entering any premises or place in exercise of the powers conferred by this Act shall produce for the inspection of the person in charge of such premises or place, or, in his absence, to such person’ s agent, his authority for such entry. Any such authority shall have affixed thereto a photograph of the inspector to whom it is issued.

Any person who wilfully impedes or obstructs any inspector in the exercise of the powers conferred on him by this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand ringgit.

Appointment of committes