- (i) provides information or produces a document that the person knows is false in a material particular; or
- (ii) recklessly provides information or produces a document that is false in a material particular.
(3) A person who commits an offence under subsection (2) is liable to a fine at level 3 and to imprisonment for 3 months.
35. Appeals to Municipal Services Appeals Board
(1) A person bound by a food safety order who is aggrieved by the order may, within 28 days after becoming bound by the order, appeal to the Municipal Services Appeals Board against the order as originally made.
(2) A person bound by a food safety order who is aggrieved by a variation of the order under section 30(5) may, within 28 days after becoming bound by the variation, appeal to the Municipal Services Appeals Board against the order as so varied.
(3) In the case of an appeal against a food safety order addressed as referred to in section 31(1)(b) or (c), if the Municipal Services Appeals Board Ordinance (Cap. 220) authorizes or requires any document to be served or any notice to be given to the persons bound by the order, the document may be served or the notice may be given by—
- (a) publication in the Gazette; or
- (b) any other means specified by the Chairman of the Municipal Services Appeals Board by notice in writing signed by the Chairman.
(4) An appeal under this section does not suspend the food safety order unless the Director decides otherwise.
36. Compensation
(1) A person bound by a food safety order may apply for an amount of compensation, recoverable as a civil debt due from the Government, that is just and equitable in all the circumstances of the case, for any loss of a kind set out in subsection (3).
(2) The person is entitled to compensation only if the person proves that—
- (a) the Director did not have reasonable grounds to make the order at the time of making the order or to vary the order at the time of a variation of the order; and
- (b) the person has suffered the relevant loss.
