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mine whether the prescribed conditions are complied with. The Minister
is advised that no process except that which is commonly known as the
" positive holder " process has yet been shown to satisfy these conditions.
The Milk (Special Designations) Amendment Order, 1922, made by
the Minister of Health, under 3 and 6 of the Milk and Dairies (Amendment)
Act, 1922, provides that until the 1st day of July, 1923, it shall be deemed
to be satisfactory if the milk is treated not more than once by a suit
able heating process and immediately cooled to a temperature of not
more than 55 degrees Fahrenheit.
General.
The Order prescribes the amounts of the fees payable for the various
licences. These fees will be paid to the Authorities by which the relative
licences are issued, and they have been fixed at such amounts as may be
expected on the average to cover the expenditure of Licensing Authorities
under the Order. But the amounts of the fees will be reconsidered and,
if necessary, revised when sufficient experience has been gained of the
working of the scheme.
MILK AND DAIRIES (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1922.
Section 1 of the Act provides for the postponement of the Milk and
Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915, until the Ist September, 1925, except
in so far as that Act repeals the Act of 1914 and the Postponement Act
of 1915.
Section 2 empowers a Local Authority under certain conditions to
refuse to register a retail purveyor of milk, or to remove such a person
from the register.
In considering the effect of this section, reference should first be made
to Article 6 of the Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order of 1885 and to
subsection (3) of the present section.
The Order in question requires every Sanitary Authority to keep a
register of persons from time to time carrying on the trade of cowkeepers,
dairymen or purveyors of milk and provides that a person may not carry
on the trade unless he is registered. This Order required the Authority
to register every person carrying on the trade and gave them no power to
refuse to register any person or to remove him from the register.
Section 2 (3) of the new Act provides that the Order is to have effect
so as to require two registers to be kept, the one being restricted to retail
purveyors and the other containing all other persons registered under the
Order (i.e., wholesale traders and producers who do not sell milk by retail) ;
and section 2 (1) empowers the Local Authority to refuse to enter any person