Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1956

Amendment of Part VIII of Principal Act.

27.—The following section is hereby inserted after section 53 of the Principal Act:

Assignment of milk sampling duties to health inspectors and veterinary officers.

“53A.—(1) A sanitary authority may assign the duty of acting as a milk sampling officer in the whole or a part of its sanitary district to—

(a) a health inspector, within the meaning of the Health Act, 1947 (No. 28 of 1947), of a health authority within whose functional area is situate the whole or that part of that sanitary district, or

(b) a veterinary officer of that sanitary authority.

(2) It shall not be necessary to obtain the consent of the Minister or of the Minister for Agriculture to an assignment under subsection (1) of this section.

(3) A person to whom the duty of acting as a milk sampling officer is assigned under subsection (1) of this section shall be deemed to be a milk sampling officer for the purposes of this Act.”