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The provision in this sub-division of this Article shall come into operation on the
First day of January, One thousand nine hundred and thirteen.
(2) No seller of preserved cream shall deposit for sale in any place, or despatch or
deliver to any purchaser, or to any other person, any receptacle containing preserved
cream intended for human consumption unless the receptacle is labelled in the manner
prescribed in the Schedule to these Regulations, and unless, in the case of preserved
cream containing boric acid, borax or a mixture of those preservative substances, the
amount of those substances calculated as boric acid (H3 BO3) is accurately stated as not
exceeding the limit specified on the label in the manner prescribed in the said Schedule:
Provided that if in any public refreshment room, restaurant, shop or other public
premises preserved cream is delivered to a purchaser or other person for consumption on
the premises, the receptacle containing the preserved cream shall not be required to be
labelled in accordance with the foregoing provisions if there is placed in a conspicuous
position in every room on the premises in which customers are served with refreshments
a notice, printed in large and easily legible type, indicating that the cream supplied for
consumption on the premises is preserved cream, or if a statement to that effect is
conspicuously made on every bill of fare exhibited to customers, or if by some other
adequate means similar intimation is publicly given.
Notice.—The Public Health Act, 1896, provides by sub-section (3) of Section 1 that if any person
wilfully neglects or refuses to obey or carry out, or obstructs the execution of, any regulation made under any
of the enactments mentioned in that Act he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding One hundred pounds,
and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further penalty not exceeding Fifty pounds for every day during
which the offence continues.
The power of making regulations under the Public Health Act, 1896, and the enactments mentioned in
that Act is enlarged by the Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907.
JAMES BELL,
Town Clerk.
Guildhall,
21st October, 1912.
Charles Skipper & East, Printers. 49, Great- Tower Street. E.C