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Part III.
Conditions subject to which Licences for Selling Milk as
" Grade A " may be granted.
A.—The following conditions apply to producers only :—
(1) No animal which to the knowledge of the owner' of the herd
has at any time been tested with tuberculin and has re-acted to the
test shall form part of or be added to the herd.
(2) The producer shall cause every milch cow belonging to the
herd to be examined once in every three months, and shall produce
to the licensing authority the veterinary surgeon's certificate within
seven days after the date of the certificate.
(3) 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.
(4) If at any time it is shown to the satisfaction of the licensing
authority that tubercle bacillus is contained in the milk, the producer
shall take all necessary steps to ascertain which animals are
diseased and to remove them from the herd and shall inform the
licensing authority how such animals have been disposed of.
(5) A suitable system shall be adopted for the marking for the
purposes of identification of the milch cows belonging to the herd,
and a complete register of such cows shall be kept.
(6) The cows in milk belonging to the herd shall be kept separate
from all other cows in milk.