FOOD AND DRUGS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958

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FOOD AND DRUGS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 20



20.(1) The Ministry may, to prevent danger to health from the supply or sale
of infected milk, make such regulations as appear to the Ministry to be
expedient

(a)for requiring the treatment before it is supplied or sold of milk which is
infected or suspected of being infected;

(b)for prohibiting the supply or sale of milk which is infected or suspected
of being infected;

(c)for prohibiting the use of milk which is infected or suspected of being
infected in the manufacture of products for sale for human consumption;

(d)for authorising the payment by [district councils] of compensation to any
person for damage or loss sustained by him by reason of any prohibition or
restriction imposed by regulations made under this section on the supply, sale
or use of milk which is infected or suspected of being infected.

(2) The Ministry may, where no express provision is made by this Act, make
regulations for prohibiting or restricting

(i)the addition of any substance to milk, or the abstraction from milk of fat
or any other constituent;

(ii)the supply or sale of milk to which any such addition, or from which any
such abstraction, has been made, or which has been otherwise artificially
treated.

(3) Regulations made under sub-section (2) shall not apply in relation to
cream in so far as they are made for any purpose for which regulations
relating to cream may be made under section four.

(4) The Ministry may, with the approval of the Ministry of Finance, repay out
of moneys provided by Parliament such part, not exceeding three-quarters, as
the Ministry may with such approval determine of any sums paid by a [district
council] by way of compensation to any person for any damage or loss sustained
by him by reason of any prohibition or restriction imposed by regulations made
under sub-section (1) on the sale, supply or use of milk which is infected or
suspected of being infected.

(5) In this section "milk" means milk intended for supply or sale or supplied
or sold for human consumption, or intended for manufacture into products for
sale for human consumption.

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FOOD AND DRUGS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1958 - SECT 20