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district to which all or any of those Parts or Sections are applied by an Order
of the Local Government Board or of the Secretary of State, as the case
may be.
Factory and Workshop Act, 1907 [7 Fdic. 7, eh. 39.]
By this Act the Factory and Workshop Act of 1901 is applied to Laundries.
Public Health (Regulations a.i to Food) Act, 1907 [7 Edw. 7, ch. 32.]
This Act gives power to the Local Government Board to make regulations
as to the importation, preparation, storage, and distribution of articles of
food.
Butter and Margarine Act, 1907 [7 Edw. 7, ch. 21.]
This Act provides for the registration of butter and margarine factories and
consignments of butter and margarine, the inspection of factories, the
prohibition of adulterants in butter factories, the limit of moisture in butter,
margarine and milk-blended butter, as to the importation of butter, magarine
and milk-blended butter, regulations as to milk solids in butter, regulations
as to preservatives, the marking of wrappers, etc., used in connection with
margarine, the regulation of sale of milk-blended butter, names of margarine,
&c.
Section 13 defines margarine for the purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs
Acts, and this Act, as "any article of food, whether mixed with butter or not,
which resembles butter and is not milk-blended butter," and this definition is
to he substituted for the definition in the Margarine Act, 1887.
Vaccination Act, 1907 [7 Edw. 7, ch. 31.]
This Act provides for the substitution of a statutory declaration as to
conscientious objection for the certificate of the Justices.
§ 2. LOCAL ACTS.
Notification of Births Act, 1907 [7 Edward 7, ch- 40.]
An Act to provide for the early Notification of Births. [28th August,
1907.]
Be it enacted bv the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the
advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in
this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as
follows:—
1. The provisions of this section shall have effect in the area of any local
authority in which this Act is adopted by that authority in accordance with
the provisions of this Act—
(1) In the case of every child born in an area in which this Act is
adopted it shall be the duty of the father of the child, if he is
actually residing in the house whore the birth takes place at the time
of its occurrence, and of any person in attendance upon the mother
at the time of, or within six hours after, the birth, to give notice in
writing of the birth to the medical officer of health of the district
in which the child is born, in manner provided bv this section.