Section 4: Establishment of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India.

The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006Central Act · Act 34 of 2006

(1) The Central Government shall, by notification, establish a body to be known as the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India to exercise the powers conferred on, and to perform the functions assigned to, it under this Act.

(2) The Food Authority shall be a body corporate by the name aforesaid, having perpetual succession and a common seal with power to acquire, hold and dispose of property, both movable and immovable, and to contract and shall, by the said name, sue or be sued.

(3) The head office of the Food Authority shall be at Delhi.

(4) The Food Authority may establish its offices at any other place in India.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006
Section	4
Marginal note	Establishment of Food Safety and Standards Authority of India.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source
Judgments citing it	1

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