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Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949.
These Regulations came into operation on the first day of
October, 1949, and provide that the Minister of Agriculture and
Fisheries shall be responsible for the registration of dairy
farmers and dairy farms, the inspection and health of cattle on
dairy farms, but the Local Authority is responsible for the
registration of milk distributors and of dairies. These Regulations
also deal with the condition and cleanliness of the buildings,
water supplies, the production, treatment, handling and storage
of milk. Provision is made for protecting milk against contamination
or infection, the cleansing and storage of vessels,
utensils and appliances and the conveyance and distribution
of milk.
It is possible under these Regulations for the Medical Officer
of Health of a district, where he is in possession of evidence
which satisfies him that any person is suffering from disease
caused by the consumption of milk supplied within the district
from any registered premises or that milk at any registered
premises within the district is infected with disease communicable
to man, to require, by a notice in writing to the occupier
of the premises, that no milk from those premises, or that
no such milk therefrom as is specified, shall be sold for human
consumption, or used in the manufacture of products for human
consumption, unless it has been treated in such a way as to
secure to his satisfaction that it may be disposed of with safety.
Similar action may be taken where the Medical Officer of Health,
without being in possession of evidence, has reasonable grounds
for suspecting that any person is so suffering or that any milk
is so infected.
Where any such notice is served under these Regulations a
copy of it must be forwarded forthwith to the Minister of
Food, and, if the premises concerned are not within the district,
to the Medical Officer of Health of the district in which they
are situated.
In certain circumstances compensation may have to be
paid for any loss sustained by a person upon whom a notice is
served.
It did not become necessary for the Medical Officer of Health
to exercise the powers vested in him by these Regulations in
relation to milk infected with any disease, bovine or human.
The Milk (Special Designations) (Raw Milk)
Regulations, 1949.
Under these Regulations, which came into force on the
1st October, 1949, the licensing of producers of "Tuberculin
Tested" and "Accredited" milk is undertaken by the Ministry
of Agriculture and Fisheries. The issue of dealers licences