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MILK ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1950 - SECT 3

Provisions as to quality of milk sold.

3.[(1) Provision may be made by regulations for prescribing, in relation to
milk of any description which complies with such requirements (including
requirements relating to origin, treatment, handling and packaging) as may be
prescribed, such designation as the Ministry considers appropriate.

(1A) Subject to the succeeding provisions of this section, no person shall,
either by himself or by any servant or agent,

(a)sell or offer or expose for sale by retail for the purpose of human
consumption; or

(b)use, or have in his possession for use, for the purposes of a
catering business,

(2) For the purposes of this section, milk which is not expressly sold or
offered or exposed for sale for purposes other than human consumption shall,
unless the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been sold or offered or
exposed for sale (as the case may be) for the purpose of human consumption.

(3) Where the Ministry has reason to believe that any milk is infected with
any disease communicable to human beings, the Ministry may, without prejudice
to any other provision of this Act, direct that such milk shall not be sold or
shall be sold only after [such treatment as the Ministry may direct].

(4) The Ministry may

(a)authorise in writing the sale by retail of milk produced by the holder of a
milk licence in any area where it is satisfied that [no milk of a designation
prescribed under sub-section (1)] of this section is available; and

(b)impose conditions subject to which any such sale by retail may be made.

Subs.(5) rep. by 1963 c.11 (NI) s.6

(6) Any person who acts in contravention of any of the provisions of this
section or of any condition imposed under or by virtue thereof shall be guilty
of an offence under this Act.

(7) This section shall not apply to sales of milk by a producer to his
servants.


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