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Committee, but the principles upon which decisions have been based in the past are now
altered owing to legislative changes.
A new Milk and Dairies Order came into force in October, 1926, which abolishes
all previous Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshop Orders and all Regulations made by local
authorities under those Orders.
The principal provisions of the new Order are as follows:—
(a) Every local authority must keep a register of all pet sons carrying on in their
district the trade of dairyman. The word "dairyman " is stated in the Act
to include a purveyor of milk, and this means a seller of milk, whether
wholesale or by retail.
(b) A register of all premises used as dairies.
(c) The word " dairy " includes any farm, cowshed, milk store, milkshop or other
place from which milk is supplied on or for sale, or in which milk is kept or
used for purposes of sale or manufacture into butter, cheese, dried milk or
condensed milk for sale, and, in the case of a purveyor of milk who does not
occupy any premises for the sale of milk, includes the place where he keeps
the vessels used by him for the sale of milk, but does not include a shop from
which milk is not supplied othericise than in properly closed and unopened
receptacles in tchich it was delivered to the shop, or a shop or other place in
which milk is sold for consumption on the premises only.
(d) Where a person delivers milk in bottles, he shall cause every such bottle to
be filled and closed on registered premises, and no person shall remove or
tamper with the disc or other device used for closing the bottle at any time
after it has left such premises and before it is delivered to the consumer.
(e) Before commencing to use as a cowshed, or as a place for the keeping of milk,
a building not previously used for that purpose, the occupier shall give one
month's notice in writing to the Sanitary Authority of his intention to do so.
Conclusions.
(1) In view of the preceding, it may be stated that, as regards dairies, the local authority
must register the premises and also the person who occupies the dairy.
(2) Power to refuse registration of a " dairy " if the premises arc unsuitable is given by
the Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922, and also by the London County
Council (General Powers) Act, 1908, both of these being still in force.
(3) Premises from which milk is not sold otherwise than in closed receptacles (e.g. bottles)
are not dairies, and therefore are not required to be registered. The occupier of such
premises is, however, required to be registered as a dairyman or purveyor of milk.
(4) The policy of this Committee in the past, with reference to small general shops, has
been to refuse registration, both for the sale of loose milk or of milk in bottles, if
certain articles deemed to be objectionable were stocked or sold, it having been considered
that the milk might be contaminated and that the bottles might be opened.
In future, with reference to the sale of loose milk in such shops, the Committee
will have power to refuse registration if the premises are unsuitable, as
such shops come within the definition of dairies, but it will not be possible to continue
the previous policy as regards shops selling only bottled milk. In these cases