Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1956

Temporary exclusion of certain dairymen from Parts II and III and of certain dairies from Part III of Principal Act.

12.—(1) This section applies to any person who is a registered proprietor within the meaning of the Dairy Produce Acts, 1924 to 1947, of premises registered under the said Acts and who is the holder of a special designation licence granted under Part IV of the Principal Act.

(2) The Minister for Agriculture may, by instrument in writing (in this Act called a special declaration), declare that during a specified period any person who sells milk to a specified person to whom this section applies and to no other persons shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act and of Parts II and III of the Principal Act not to carry on the business of dairyman and that the premises of such person shall be deemed for the purposes of the said Part III not to be a dairy.

(3) A person who sells milk to a person specified in a special declaration and to no other persons, during the period specified in the declaration, shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act and of Parts II and III of the Principal Act not to carry on the business of a dairyman and the premises of such person shall, during such period, be deemed for the purposes of the said Part III not to be a dairy.