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shall either be enclosed in packages marked in accordance with
the Margarine Act of 1887, as amended by this Act, or be
itself conspicuously branded with the words " margarinecheese."
Section 6 provides that where, under this Act, or the
Margarine Act, 1887, it is required that any package containing
margarine or margarine-cheese shall be branded or marked,
the brand or mark shall be on the package itself, and not
solely on the label, ticket, or other thing attached thereto.
The letters required to be printed on the paper wrapper in
which margarine or margarine-cheese is sold shall be capital
block letters, not less than half an inch long, and distinctly
legible, and no other printed matter shall appear on the wrapper.
Section 7 requires every occupier of a manufactory of
margarine or margarine-cheese, and every wholesale dealer in
such substances, to keep a register showing the quantity and
destination of each consignment of such substances sent out by
him. Such register shall be open to inspection at all reasonable
times by any officer of the Board of Agriculture, and if not
properly kept, or if kept in a manner to deceive with fraudulent
intent, the manufacturer or dealer shall be liable to a fine
of £10, and for a second or subsequent offence to a fine of £50.
Under Section 8 it shall be unlawful, under penalty, to
manufacture, sell, expose for sale, or import any margarine,
the fat of which contains more than ten per cent, of butter fat,
and every person who manufactures, sells, or imports any
margarine which contains more than that percentage, shall be
guilty of an offence under the Margarine Act, 1887, and any
defence which would be a defence under Section 7 of that Act
shall be a defence under this section, and the provisions of the
former section shall apply accordingly.
Provided that nothing in this section shall apply to any
margarine manufactured or imported in fulfilment of any contract
made before the twentieth day of July one thousand
eight hundred and ninety-nine.
{Note.)—A well-known authority in discussing the proposal
to make it illegal to sell margarine which contains more
than 10 per cent, of butter fat, remarks :—" It must be
borne in mind that, even without any admixture of
genuine butter, margarine will rise above the proposed
restricted maximum of quality, for in some districts of
Scotland the rich milk which is used in the creameries
to churn the margarine would, of itself, yield more than
the statutory 10 per cent, of butter fat.