Dairy Produce Act, 1924

Inspection and sampling of milk and cream.

40.—(1) Any inspector (subject to the production by him if so required of his authority in writing as such inspector) may at all reasonable times enter any creamery or cream-separating station or any place where milk or cream is used for the manufacture of any dairy produce for sale and may inspect any milk or cream found in such creamery, cream-separating station, or place and may take and remove without payment any samples of any such milk or cream or of any dirt in such milk or cream or in any vessel in which such milk or cream is contained.

(2) Any inspector (subject to the production by him if so required of his authority in writing as such inspector) or any member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police or of the Gárda Síochána may at any time examine any milk or cream in course of transport to or delivery at any creamery or cream-separating station or any place where milk or cream is used in the manufacture of any dairy produce for sale and may take and remove without payment samples of any such milk or cream or of any dirt in such milk or cream or in any vessel in which such milk or cream is contained.

(3) Any person who, knowing the name or other particulars of the person by whom any such milk or cream inspected or examined under this section is supplied, refuses to give such name or other particulars to any inspector or to any member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police or of the Gárda Síochána shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be punishable accordingly.

(4) Every person who shall obstruct or impede any inspector or any member of the Dublin Metropolitan Police or of the Gárda Síochána in the exercise of any of the powers conferred on him by this section shall be guilty of an offence against this section and shall be punishable accordingly.

(5) Every person guilty of an offence under this section shall on summary conviction thereof be liable to a penalty not exceeding five pounds.