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Purpose and legislative effect
“This Act may be cited as the Breast Milk Substitute (Regulation and Control) Act.”
This Act may be cited as the Breast Milk Substitute (Regulation and Control) Act. Section 2 provides definitions/interpretation, listing various media and items (e.g. written publication, broadcasts, displays, infant feeding products, and other designated products the Cabinet Secretary may declare) and notes subsection (2) is spent. The Act binds the Government. The Cabinet Secretary must establish the National Committee on Infant and Young Child Feeding and make appointments and administrative arrangements for it. The Committee must advise the Cabinet Secretary on infant and young child nutrition policy, participate in formulating and recommending regulations under the Act, perform other functions assigned by the Cabinet Secretary, and may delegate powers or functions to sub-committees by resolution.
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This Act may be cited as the Breast Milk Substitute (Regulation and Control) Act.
Section 1
The Cabinet Secretary may prescribe the manner of donations or distributions of breast milk substitutes or complementary food products to charitable children institutions; infant care providers must have or receive appropriate training…
Section 7
An authorised officer named in a warrant must enter a dwelling place only between six o’clock in the forenoon and six o’clock in the afternoon on any day.
Section 15
An authorised officer may direct that a seized designated or complementary food product or thing be stored where it was seized or removed to another place.
Section 21
Section 28 allows the Cabinet Secretary to make regulations and, by order, to permit certain promotional uses of signs and materials, and requires the Cabinet Secretary to reference the International Code of Breastmilk Substitutes and related World Health…
Section 28
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Source and current-law status
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Source record from new.kenyalaw.org · As at 31 Dec 2022
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