Article 31 (Delegation and Entrustment of Authority) (1) The Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs may delegate part of his or her authority under this Act to the heads of affiliated agencies under his or her control or each Mayor/Do Governor, as prescribed by Presidential Decree. <Amended on Mar. 23, 2013> (2) The Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs may entrust a feed-related organization with work for receiving feed-import declarations and testing feed under Article 19, as prescribed by Presidential Decree. <Amended on Mar. 23, 2013> (3) Each Mayor/Do Governor may entrust a feed-related organization with work for the registration of ingredients under Article 12 (1), as prescribed by Presidential Decree.
Article 32 (Legal Fiction as Public Officials for Purposes of Applying Penalty Provisions) An executive officer or employee of a feed testing and inspection institution who engages in inspecting feed for certification, an executive officer or employee of a feed testing institution who engages in testing feed pursuant to Article 22, or an executive or employee of a feed-related organization who engages in
work entrusted pursuant to Article 31 (2) and (3), shall be deemed as a public official for purposes of applying penalty provisions under Articles 129 through 132 of the Criminal Act. <Amended on Dec. 31, 2018>
CHAPTER VI?PENALTY PROVISIONS
Article 33 (Penalty Provisions) Any of the following persons shall be punished by imprisonment with labor for not more than three years or by a fine not exceeding 30 million won: <Amended on Feb. 3, 2015>
- A person who manufactures, imports, or sells feed or uses it as a raw material for feed in violation of