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Provided that this article shall not be deemed to prohibit the purchaser
or his agent when taking delivery of the milk from opening a churn,
vessel or other receptacle containing milk or transferring the milk to another
receptacle so far as such opening or transfer may be necessary for
the purpose of checking and sampling the milk.
(2) Where a person delivers milk in bottles he shall cause every
such bottle to be filled and closed on registered premises; and no person
shall remove or tamper with the disc or other device used for closing the
bottle at any time after it has left such premises and before it is delivered
to the. consumer.
20. Every person engaged in the conveyance or distribution of milk
shall use all practicable precautions for preventing the milk from being
unnecessarily exposed to heat and from being contaminated by dirt, dust,
rain water or otherwise.
21. The interior of every vehicle used for the conveyance of milk
shall be at all times kept clean. No live animal or any article likely to
contaminate the milk shall be conveyed in the vehicle at the same time as
milk and no vehicle which has been used for the conveyance of offensive
matter shall be used for the conveyance of milk until the vehicle has
been thoroughly cleansed and purified.
Note.—The Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915, provides by sub-section (3)
of section 1 that if any person is guilty of a contravention of, or non-compliance
with the provisions of any Milk and Dairies Order, he shall be guilty of an offence
against the Act.
Sub-section (1) of section 18 of that Act provides that if any person commits an
offence against the Act he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding in the case of the first offence five pounds and in the case of a second or
subsequent offence fifty pounds, and if the offence is a continuing offence to a further
fine not exceeding forty shillings for each day during which the offence continues.
The Public Health (Imported Milk) Regulations, 1926
1. (1) Every Sanitary Authority shall enforce and execute these Regulations
and shall keep a Register of persons to whom milk imported into
their district may be consigned.