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cause to their satisfaction accordingly they may remove him from the
register.
(2) Any person aggrieved by any such decision of the Sanitary
Authority as aforesaid may, within twenty-one days, appeal to a Court
of Summary Jurisdiction and that Court may require the Sanitary
Authority not to remove him from the register.
(3) The Sanitary Authority, or such person as aforesaid, may appeal
from the decision of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction to the next
practicable Court of Quarter Sessions, and that Court may confirm,
vary or reverse the Order of the Court of Summary Jurisdiction.
(4) The decision of a Sanitary Authority to remove any person from
the register shall not have effect until the expiration of the time for
appeal to a Court of Summary Jurisdiction, nor if any such appeal is
brought until the expiration of seven days after the determination
thereof, nor if notice of appeal to Quarter Sessions is given within such
seven days until such appeal is finally determined unless such appeal
ceases to he prosecuted.
(5) Where, in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this Article,
a person is removed from the register of a Sanitary Authority, the
Sanitary Authority shall report the facts to the Minister, and if the
Minister on consideration of such facts is of opinion that that person
should be removed from the register of any other Sanitary Authority or
should not be included in such register either absolutely or in respect
of any specified source of supply he may direct such Sanitary Authority
so to remove such person from the register or to refuse so to register
him as the case may be and such Sanitary Authority shall forthwith
comply with the Minister's direction.
7. A person shall, if so required, give to any officer of a Sanitary
Authority acting in the execution of these Regulations all reasonable
assistance in his power and shall in relation to anything within his
knowledge furnish any such officer with all information he may reasonably
require for the purpose of these Regulations.
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.) R. B. Cross,
Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Health.
Note.—The Public Health Act, 1896, provides by Sub-section (3) of
Section 1 that if any person wilfully neglects or refuses to obey or carry
out, or obstructs the execution of any regulations made under any of the
enactments mentioned in that Act, he shall be liable to a penalty not
exceeding .£100, and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further
penalty not exceeding £50 for every day during which the offence
continues.
The power of making regulations under the Public Health Act, 1896,
and the enactments mentioned in that Act, is enlarged by the Public
Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907, as amended by the Milk and
Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922.
Public Health (Preservatives, &c., in Food) Amendment
Regulations, 1926.
In December the Minister of Health referred to
Circular 606, dated the 11th August, 1925, and forwarded
for the information of the Authority a copy of the Public
Health (Preservatives, &c., in Food) Amendment Regulations,