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Milk (Special Designation) Regulations, 1960
These Regulations, which came into operation on 1st October,
1960, consolidated and re-enacted with amendments the Milk (Special
Designation)(Raw Milk) Regulations, 1949-1954, and the Milk (Special
Designation)(Pasteurised and Sterilised Milk) Regulations, 1949-1953.
Changes in licensing dealers in milk provided that:-
1. All dealers' licences, other than those issued by the
Minister, will be issued by the food and drugs authority for the
area in which are situated the premises at or from which the milk is
sold. A dealer's licence no longer restricts sales to the area of
the licensing authority and supplementary licences are therefore discontinued
.
2. A new form of licence, the dealer's (pre-packed milk)
licence, is introduced which may authorise, in a single form of
licence, the use of any or all of the appropriate special designations
where the milk is obtained by the licensed dealer pre-packed,
i.e. in the container in which it is to be delivered to the consumer,
or is pasteurised or sterilised by the dealer in accordance with a
dealer's (pasteuriser's) licence or a dealer's (steriliser's)
licence. The dealer's (tuberculin tested) licence is being retained.
3. Dealers' licences issued on or after 1st January, 1961
will be valid for five years from that date, and will be renewable
for subsequent quinquennial periods.
These changes in licensing procedure are designed primarily
to reduce the amount of routine work involved in the
administration of the Regulations.
There are no milk processing depots in the borough and all
the licenses granted were in relation to milk obtained in pre-packed
form for sale from premises in the borough.

* One sample of tuberculin tested (farm bottled) milk was not submitted
to the methylene blue test as the water bath temperature exceeded 67°F
which is the limit specified in the Regulations.
+ Details regarding these samples were sent to the Ministry of Agriculture,
Fisheries and Food.