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declaration required by Rule 1 of the Schedule
may be varied so as to relate to one pound
or to any other specified weight of the article
sold instead of the contents of the actual tin
or other receptacle.
The Medical Officer of Health, and any person authorised
by him or by the Local Authority in writing, may procure any
sample of dried milk, and where an analysis is required for the
purposes of these Regulations shall submit the sample to the
public analyst and shall forthwith notify to the seller or his
agent selling the dried milk his intention to have the same
analysed by the public analyst.
Except where the sample is procured for the purpose of
testing the quantity of milk, partly skimmed milk, or skimmed
milk of which the contents of a tin or other receptacle are the
equivalent, the provisions of Section 14 of the Sale of Food and
Drugs Act, 1875 as amended by Section 13 of the Sale of
Food and Drugs Act, 1899, relating to the division of the
sample into three parts and the separation, marking and disposal
of such parts shall apply.
Where the sample is procured for the purpose of testing
the quantity of milk, partly skimmed milk or skimmed milk of
which the contents of a tin or other receptacle are the equivalent
the person by whom the sample is procured shall as soon as may
be after the net weight of the contents has been ascertained
deliver a part of the sample to the seller or his agent.
Any officer authorised by the Minister and any officer of the
Local Authority duly authorised by the Authority in writing
shall have power to enter at all reasonable times any premises
where dried milk is prepared, packed, labelled or stored and to
inspect any process carried on therein and to take samples of