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The Milk and Dairies Act.
The Milk and Dairies Act was to come into force on 1st January, 1915.
unless the Local Government Board exercised its power to postpone the
date on which the Act would take effect. The Board may by regulation
prescribe the conditions under which milk is permitted to be sold as
"certified milk" and to prevent the use of the term "certified" in the
sale of milk which does not comply with these conditions. Regulations
are to be made for the inspection of imported milk and milk products,
while the clause in the Act, authorising sanitary authorities to maintain
depots for the supply of milk for infants was amended, so as to require
that the sale should not be at a rate under cost price. New regulations
are authorised by the Act for the prevention of infection, the inspection
of dairy cows, the prevention of the contamination of milk in transit or
delivery, and various other matters. These will be framed, and the
Local Government Board has to obtain the consent of the Board of
Agriculture to their use.
A copy of the Milk and Dairies Act, 1914, was supplied to each
member of the Committee as it is seen by Section 12 (2), that:—
"A local authority may delegate to a committee any of their
powers or duties (other than the power of raising rates) under the
provisions of this Act or of any Milk and Dairies Order, and in
such case anything required or authorised by those provisions to
be done to or by the local authority, may be done to or by the
committee to which such powers and duties have been so
delegated."
Whereas, by section 18 (1) of the Milk and Dairies Act, 1914, it is
enacted that the Act shall come into operation on 1st January, 1915, or
such later date, not being later than 1st October, 1915, as the Local
Government Board may, by Order, appoint, the Local Government
Board, by their Order of 17th December, 1914, appointed and directed
1st Octobcr, 1915, as the date on which the Act shall come into operation.
SMOKE NUISANCES.
Number of Nuisances.
London County Council and Suppression of Smoke Nuisance ;
Coal Smoke Abatement Society—Annual Report.
Smoke Abatement Bill.
Number of Smoke Nuisances.
65 smoke nuisances were dealt with during the year:—27 Bow East,
2 Bow West, 3 Bromley North, 10 Bromley Central, 7 East Combined,
G West Combined, and 10 Poplar South.
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