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MILK AND DAIRIES ORDER, 1926.
The attention of all persons engaged in the storage, distribution and
sale of milk in the Borough was called to the following summary of the
principal provisions of the Orders and Regulations affecting persons
engaged in the storage, distribution and sale of milk.
Definitions.
"Milk" means milk intended for sale for human consumption or for use
in the manufacture of products for sale for human consumption, and
includes cream, skimmed milk and separated milk;
"Dairy" includes any farm, cowshed, milk store, milk shop 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 otherwise than in properly closed
and unopened receptacles in which it was delivered to the shop or a shop
or other place in which milk is sold for consumption on the premises only.
"Registered premises" means any building or other premises required
to be registered under the provisions of this order.
1. Every Cowkeeper and dairyman shall take all practicable steps to
make the provision of this order known to every person in or about any
registered premises in his occupation so far as such provisions impose any
duties or restrictions on such person and so far as they relate to the processes
carried out by such person.
Registration and Notices.
2. (1) Every sanitary authority shall keep registers of all persons carrying
on in their district the trade of cowkeeper or dairyman and of all
farms and other premises within their district which are used as dairies.
(2) Subject to the provisions of Section 2 of the Milk and Dairies
(Amendment) Act, 1922, (c) or of any other statutory enactment, the
sanitary authority, on the application of any person proposing to carry on
in their district the trade of cowkeeper or dairyman or to use any farm
or other premises in the district as a dairy, shall register such person or
such premises.