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Section 20 (6) Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, provides for
proceedings against Warrantors for giving false Warranties.
Section 20 (6). "Every person, who, in respect of an
article of food or drug sold by him as principle or agent, gives
to the purchaser a false warranty in writing, shall be liable on
summary conviction for the first offence, to a fine not exceeding
£20 . . . unless he proves to the satisfaction of the Court
that when he gave the Warranty he had reason to believe that
the statements or descriptions contained therein were true."
Warranties are further referred to in Section 7 of the Margarine
Act, 1887.
The Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875 to 1907, are amended
by the Milk and Dairies Act, 1914, which comes into operation in
October, 1915, and the special amendment in reference to Warranties
in connection with the sale of milk is contained in the third Schedule
to the Act as follows:—
"Within 60 hours after the sample of milk was procured
from the purveyor he may serve on the local authority a notice
stating the name and address of the sellers from whom he
received the milk and the time and place of delivery to the
purveyor by the seller or consignor of milk from a corresponding
milking and requesting them to take immediate steps to
procure as soon as practicable, a sample of milk in the course
of transit or delivery from the seller or consignor to the purveyor,
unless a sample has been so taken since the sample was
procured from the purveyor, or within 24 hours prior to the
sample being procured from the purveyor, and where a purveyor
has not served such notice as aforesaid, he shall not be
entitled to plead a Warranty as a defence in any such
proceedings.