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29. Every person shall cause every churn, vessel or other receptacle,
other than bottles, in which he despatches milk by rail or road to
comply with the following requirements, viz.:—
(1) The name and address of the owner shall be permanently
marked on the churn, vessel or other receptacle or on a
plate or plates of metal properly soldered or otherwise securely
affixed thereto.
(2) The churn, vessel or other receptacle shall be provided with a
lid without openings, which shall be so constructed and fitted
as effectively to prevent the access to the milk of dirt, dust
or rain water or the return to the interior of the receptacle
of any milk which may have been splashed above the lid.
30. Every person shall cause every churn, vessel or other receptacle
used by him for the conveyance of skimmed or separated milk or for
containing such milk at any time when it is exposed for sale to be
marked with the words "Skimmed Milk" or "Separated Milk," as
the case may require, in large and legible type.
31.—(1) Except in pursuance of any statutory authority in that
behalf, no person shall open any churn, vessel or other receptacle containing
milk or transfer milk from one receptacle to another in any
railway van or on any railway station:
Provided that this article shall not be deemed to prohibit the purchaser
or his agent when taking delivery of the milk from opening a churn,
vessel or other receptacle containing milk or transferring the milk to
another receptacle so far as such opening or transfer may be necessary
for the purpose of checking and sampling the milk.
(2) Where a person delivers milk in bottles he shall cause every such
bottle to be filled and closed on registered premises; and no person
shall remove or tamper with the disc or other device used for closing the
bottle at any time after it has left such premises and before it is
delivered to the consumer.
32. Every person engaged in the conveyance or distribution of milk
shall use all practicable precautions for preventing the milk from being
unnecessarily exposed to heat and from being contaminated by dirt,
dust, rain water or otherwise.
33. The interior of every vehicle used for the conveyance of milk
shall be at all times kept clean. No live animal or any article likely
to contaminate the milk shall be conveyed in the vehicle at the same
time as milk and no vehicle which has been used for the conveyance of
offensive matter shall be used for the conveyance of milk until the
vehicle has been thoroughly cleansed and purified.
Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Health this Sixth
day of July, in the year One thousand nine hundred and
twenty-six.
l.s. E. B. Cross,
Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Health.
The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries hereby concurs in the
making of the above order.
H. E. Dale,
Assistant Secretary, Ministry of
Agriculture and Fisheries.
Note.—The Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act. 1915, provides by
sub-section (3) of section 1 that if any person is guilty of a contravention
of, or non-compliance with the provisions of any Milk and Dairies
Order, he shall be guilty of an offence against the Act.
Sub-section (1) of section 18 of that Act provides that if any person
commits an offence against the Act he shall be liable on summary