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	FESTIVAL OF MATZOT (PROHIBITION OF LEAVEN) LAW, 5746-1986*
Prohibition of display of leaven	1. From noon on the 14th Nisan until twenty minutes after sunset on the 21st Nisan, the owner of a business shall not publicly display any leavened product for of sale or consumption. For this purpose, "leavened product" means - (1) bread; (2) rolls; (3) pitta; (4) any other leavened flour products.
Restriction on prohibition	2. The provisions of section 1 shall not apply - (1) in the area of a locality in which most of the inhabitants or most of the members of the council of the local authority are not Jews; (2) in those parts of the area of another locality in which most of the inhabitants are not Jews or most of the business establishments do not belong to Jews; (3) in the area of a command settlement in which the business establishments are designed for the requirements of the inhabitants of the locality only.
Penalties	3. A person who contravenes the provisions of section 1 is liable to a fine.
Inspectors	4. (a) The Minister of the Interior shall appoint inspectors for the purposes of this Law from among State employees or from among persons duly appointed wardens or inspectors by virtue of any enactment or from a list of wardens and inspectors submitted to him by local authorities. (b) An inspector as aforesaid shall have power to carry out investigations as to offences under this Law. In the exercise of such power - (1) he shall have the powers of a police officer under section 2 of the Criminal Procedure (Arrest and Searches) Ordinance (New Version), 5729-1969(1); (2) he may exercise all the powers of a police officer of the rank of inspector under section 2 of the Criminal Procedure (Evidence) Ordinance(2), and section 3 of the said Ordinance shall apply to a statement taken down by virtue of those powers.
Amendment of Courts Law.	5. The following shall be added at the end of the Third Schedule to the Courts Law (Consolidated Version), 5744-1984(3): "23. Festival of Matzot (Prohibition of Leaven) Law, 5746-1986.".
Implementation and regulations	6. (a) The Minister of the Interior is charged with the implementation of this Law and may, with the approval of the Home Affairs and Ecology Committee of the Knesset, make regulations for its implementation. (b) The Minister of the Interior may determine the boundaries of those parts of localities to which, by virtue of section 2(2), section 1 does not apply.
	SHIMON PERES Prime Minister YITZCHAK PERETZ Minister of the Interior CHAIM HERZOG President of the State
	* Passed by the Knesset on the 28th Tammuz, 5746 (4th August, 1986) and published in Sefer Ha-Chukkim No. 1191 of the 8th Av, 5746 (13th August, 1986), p. 220; the Bill and an Explanatory Note were published in Hatza'ot Chok No. 1724 of 5745, p. 160. (1) Dinei Medinat Yisrael (Nusach Chadash) No. 12, p. 284; NV vol. II, p. 30. (2) Laws of Palestine vol. I, p. 467 (English Edition). (3) Sefer Ha-Chukkim of 5744, p. 198; L.S.I. vol. XXXVIII, p. 200.

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SOURCE: "Laws of the State of Israel: Authorized Translation from the Hebrew, Volume 40". Government Printer, Jerusalem, Israel (1948-1989), p. 231.

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