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Inspection of factories
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2.—(1) Any officer of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries or of the local Government Board shall have power to enter at all reasonable times any premises registered under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts or this Act, and to inspect any process of manufacture, blending, reworking, or treatment used therein, and to take samples for analysis of any butter, margarine, margarine cheese, milk-blended butter, or of any article capable of being used in the manufacture, treatment, or adulteration of any such article as aforesaid.
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(2) An officer of a local authority who is authorised to procure samples under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts shall, if specially authority in that behalf by the local authority, have the like powers of entry, inspection, and sampling as regards any premises registered with the authority as a butter factory.
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(3) If the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries have reason to believe—
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(a) that oh any unregistered premises, there is carried on any process of manufacture, blending, reworking, or treatment or any wholesale dealing which under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts or this Act cannot be carried on except on registered premises; or
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(b) that on any premises butter is by way of trade either made or stored, and that for the purposes of those Acts inspection is desirable,
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the Board may specially authorise any officer of the Board to enter the premises, and in such case the officer shall have the like powers of entry, inspection, and sampling as if the premises were registered.
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(4) Where under this section a special authority is required an officer of the Board or of a local authority shall not be entitled to exercise any of, his powers under this section unless, if so requested by or on behalf of the occupier of the premises to be entered, he produces his authority.
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(5) Subsection (2) of section seven of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899, is hereby repealed.
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