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Part I.
Conditions subject to which Licences for Selling Milk as
" Certified " may be granted.
A.—The following conditions apply to producers only : —
(1)—(a.) The producer shall cause every animal of the herd to be
submitted to an examination and to a prescribed tuberculin test at
intervals of six months and shall produce to the licensing authority
the veterinary surgeon's certificate and the certificate of the prescribed
tuberculin test within seven days after the respective dates
of those certificates. He shall not permit any animal to be injected
with tuberculin except on the occassions of the prescribed tuberculin
tests;
(b) No animal other than an animal taken directly from a herd
in respect of which a licence for the sale of "Certified" or "Grade
A (Tuberculin tested)" milk is in operation, shall be added to the
herd unless it has passed a prescribed tuberculin test immediately
before it is so added;
(c) Where any animal is certified as re-acting to a prescribed
tuberculin test it shall forthwith be removed from the herd, and
where any animal is certified as showing evidence of any disease
which is likely to affect the milk injuriously it shall be isolated or
removed from the herd, as the case may require. The milk from an
animal so isolated shall not be sold as milk from the herd. The
producer shall inform the licensing authority of the reasons for the
isolation or removal of an animal and, in the case of removal, of
the manner in which it has been disposed of;
(d) A suitable system shall be adopted for the marking for purposes
of identification of the animals in the herd, and a complete
register of such animals shall be kept; and
(e) The herd shall be completely isolated from all other cattle.
(2) The milk shall be bottled on the farm immediately after production.