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from any other Medical Officer of Health. Section 21 (3)
provides that as from the expiration of one year after the
commencement of the Act the Local Act provisions shall be
repealed.
The Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries has made an
Order (the Tuberculosis Order of 1925) providing for the
slaughter of bovine animals affected with certain specified
forms of tuberculosis and for the payment of compensation
in respect of animals so slaughtered. The Order will come
into operation on the same day as the Act and it will be the
duty of the Local Authority, when in the exercise of their
powers under the Act they discover the presence in a herd
of an animal to which the Order applies, to cause it to be
slaughtered in pursuance of the Order, or if they are not
themselves the Authority for the purposes of the Diseases of
Animals Acts, to report the matter to that Authority for the
appropriate action. Further information as to the Tuberculosis
Order is contained in the Circular Letter issued by
the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries under the Reference
No. T.A. 19848/C.L.
Sections 6 and 7 re-enact provisions contained in the Sale
of Food and Drugs Act, 1899.
Section 8, in conjunction with Section 14, enlarges the
power of the Officers of the Local Authority to take samples of
milk, and such samples may under the Act be taken at any
time before the milk is delivered to the consumer. Except by
the direction of the Minister, samples may only be taken in
the area for which the Officer acts, but an Authorised Officer
of one Authority may by notice require the Medical Officer
or other Authorised Officer of another Authority, being a Sale
of Food and Drugs Acts Authority, to take samples of milk
within the area of his Authority. Where such a notice is
given, the Authority whose officer requires samples to be taken
will be liable to defray the expenses incurred, and for the
purposes of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts the sample will
be deemed to have been taken within the area of the officer
giving the notice.
Section 9 in conjunction with the Third Schedule amends
the provisions of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts with regard
to the warranty defence. Where such a defence is pleaded by
a purveyor of milk a sample from a corresponding milking
must be taken in the course of transit or delivery to the
purveyor, and if the owner of the cows so requests, a further
sample must be taken at the dairy at which the cows are kept.
The warranty defence will not be available where the sample
in respect of which the proceedings are taken is a mixture of
milk obtained from more than one seller or consignor. Power
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