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SECTION "E" —INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OF FOOD
Milk and Dairies Regulations, 1949
A local authority is required to keep a register of all persons
carrying on the trade of a distributor of milk in their district and of all
premises within their district which are used as dairies, not being dairy
farms. The definition of a "distributor" contained in the regulations
referred to has been amended by The Milk and Dairies (Amendment)
Regulations, 1953 (SI 1876) and now means a person trading as a
dairyman elsewhere than at or from premises in relation to which he is
registered as a dairy farmer under these regulations but does not
include a purveyor of cream in the hermetically sealed containers in which
it is delivered to his premises provided that such a purveyor is not
otherwise a purveyor of milk.
The term dairy includes any milk store, milk shop or other
premises from which milk is supplied on or for sale or in which milk
is kept or used for the purpose of sale or of manufacture into butter,
cheese, dried milk or condensed milk for sale or in which vessels used
for the sale of milk are kept, but does not include a shop from which
milk is supplied only in the properly closed and unopened vessels in
which it is delivered to the shop, or a shop or other place in which milk
is sold for consumption on the premises only.
At the end of the year there were 80 persons registered for the
distribution of milk from premises within the borough and 16 persons
registered for the distribution of milk within the borough from premises
in the area of another authority.
Five premises in the borough were registered as dairies.
Milk (Special Designations) Licences
Under the Milk (Special Designations) (Specified Areas) Order,
1951 the use of special designations for retail sales of milk is compulsory
in the County of London. The designations referred to are "pasteurised,"
" sterilised," " tuberculin tested " and " accredited " and are authorised
by the Milk (Special Designation) (Pasteurised and Sterilised Milk)
Regulations and the Milk (Special Designation) (Raw Milk) Regulations
of 1949. A dealer's licence (except in the case of milk sold by wholesale)
authorises the use of a special designation in relation only to milk sold
within the licensing area of the licensing authority. Where the holder
of a licence authorising him to use a special designation in relation to
milk sold by him at or from premises in one licensing area proposes to
sell milk by retail in another licensing area, the licensing authority of
the second licensing area may grant him a supplementary licence
authorising him during the period of operation of the first mentioned
licence to use the special designation in relation to milk so sold in their
licensing area. Licences, which remain in operation from January 1
to December 31 were issued during the year as follows:—