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imported from abroad, the Board of Agriculture desire that the circumstances be
reported to them.
The Act regulates the use of names in connection with margarine on wrappers,
packages, labels, advertisements and invoices. Every such name must include the
word Margarine, printed in the same colour and in type as large as the rest of the
name. It is also required that the fancy or descriptive name shall be approved by
the Board of Agriculture.
Milk blended butter shall be dealt with under such name or names as may be
approved by the Board of Agriculture and under the conditions applicable to the
sale or description of margarine, with the substitution of an approved name for the
word " Margarine."
There must be printed on the wrapper in addition to the approved name such
description of the article setting out the percentage of water or moisture contained
therein.
A name shall not be approved by the Board of Agriculture for use in connection
with Margarine, if it refers to, or is suggestive of butter, or anything connected with
the dairy interests; nor shall such a name be approved as a name under which
milk blended butter may be imported, or dealt with.
Under this Act it is illegal for any person to manufacture, sell, expose or offer
for sale, or have in his possession for the purpose of sale, any mixture of butter with
milk or cream containing more than 24 per cent, of water. In addition to taking
proceedings against the vendor of milk blended butter with more than 24 per cent
of added water, the Board of Agriculture will take further samples at the factory
where the article was produced.
A penalty not exceeding £20 is provided for the first offence and a fine not
exceeding £50 for the second and not exceeding £100 for the third offence.
A new definition of Margarine is given in this Act which shall mean " Any
article of food, whether mixed with butter or not, which resembles butter and
is not milk blended butter."
The Council appointed the whole of the Inspectors as special officers under
this Act and not merely those inspectors in whose districts premises which are
liable to be registered are situate.
There are eight premises registered as butter factories, wholesale dealers and
manufacturers of milk blended butter in the Borough, and five registered as
wholesale dealers in Margarine.