Dairy Produce Act, 1924

Regulations applicable to registered butter factories.

19.—The following regulations shall apply to all premises registered in the register of butter factories, that is to say:—

(a) butter containing water in excess of sixteen per cent. shall not be packed for export, or exported, or consigned for export, in or from the premises;

(b) butter containing water in excess of sixteen per cent. shall not be packed for sale, or sold, or offered or consigned for sale on or from the premises, except to a butter factory in Saorstát Eireann, and then only subject to and in accordance with the prescribed conditions and subject to and in accordance with the provisions of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, 1875 to 1907;

(c) all butter exported from the premises and also every package or wrapper in which such butter is packed shall before it leaves the premises be marked in the prescribed manner with the marks (if any) prescribed by regulations made under this Act;

(d) all butter packed on the premises shall be packed only in such manner and in such packages or wrappers as shall be prescribed by regulations made under this Act.