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Sale of Food and Drugs Act Amendment Act, 1879.
Margarine Act, 1887.
Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899.
Butter and Margarine Act, 1907.
(b) Legislation amending and supplementing the Sale of Food and
Drugs Acts, viz.:—
Section 10 of the Licensing Act, 1921 (dilution of spirits).
Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1916.
Section 4 of the Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922.
Section 23 of the Finance Act, 1921 (sending samples to Government
Chemist).
(c) Orders and Regulations made under the Sale of Food and Drugs
Acts, viz.:—
Order as to Registration of Margarine Factories, etc., 1900.
Order as to Registration of Butter Factories, etc., 1907.
Regulation as to Competency of Analysts, 1900.
Sale of Milk Regulations, 1901 and 1912.
Sale of Butter Regulations, 1902.
(d) Regulations made under the Public Health (Regulations as to
Food) Act, 1907, viz.:—
Public Health (Milk and Cream) Regulations, 1912 and 1917*.
Public Health (Condensed Milk) Regulations, 1923.
Public Health (Dried Milk) Regulations, 1923.
Public Health (Preservatives, &c., in Food) Regulations, 1925
and 1926.
2. Most of the legal provisions cited above are enforced and executed
by Sale of Food and Drugs Acts Authorities, and it is convenient that
they should be treated for the purpose of administration and report as
constituting a single group of laws for securing the purity of food.
II.—Action and Reports of Local Authorities.
3. The Local Authority is required by statute to send copies of the
Public Analyst's Quarterly Reports to the Ministry, and in order to
facilitate the work of the Department the reports should be sent every
quarter as soon as they are received.
4. The Ministry also desire to receive information respecting the action
taken by Local Authorities in regard to each sample not reported as
genuine by the Public Analyst, showing what legal proceedings have
been instituted and the result of such proceedings. Particulars should
be given of any prosecutions of an exceptional character, especially in
connection with the adulteration of milk or with the application of any
new legislation or Regulations. Where prosecution has not been considered
advisable the Ministry should be furnished with a brief statement
of the circumstances which have determined the decision, and the
precise action which has been taken. The information should be given
either on a copy of the Analyst's report or otherwise in such a form as
to ensure the identification of the relative sample.
5. Where proceedings in respect of offences committed in any quarter
are pending at the time of sending in the report for that quarter, the
necessary information as to the result of the proceedings should be
transmitted to the Ministry as early as practicable.
6. The Ministry desire to be furnished with particulars of offences
other than adulteration, e.g., contravention of the labelling requirements
of the Regulations mentioned in paragraph 1 (d) of this Memorandum
or of the provisions of the Margarine Act, 1887, or the Butter and
Margarine Act,, 1907, obstructing officers in the discharge of their duty,
or refusing to sell. As regards such offences information as to the
* Revoked as from 1st January, 1928.