Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsDefault of local authority
| 12. Where on a report of the Chief Food Authority that a local authority, as the Food Authority for the administrative area of that local authority, has failed to carry into execution, enforce or comply with any provision of this Act or any regulations made there under or any direction given to it by the Chief Food Authority, the Minister, after giving that local authority an opportunity to show cause against it, if satisfied that the local authority has failed and that the failure affects the general interest of the public, may, with the concurrence of the Minister in charge of the subject of Local Government, by Order published in the Gazette, empower the Chief Food Authority to carry into execution or enforce or comply with that provision or direction. |