Diseases of Animals (Bovine Tuberculosis) Act, 1957

Pasteurising of separated milk.

4.—Section 30 of the Dairy Produce Act, 1924 (No. 58 of 1924), is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following subsections:

“(5) The Minister may make regulations requiring that all or any premises registered in the register of creameries or all or any premises registered in the register of cream separating stations shall be equipped with plant for pasteurising separated milk, and may by such regulations prescribe the mode and manner in all respects of pasteurising separated milk and the records to be kept in relation thereto and require the retention of such records for inspection and their being made available for inspection.

(6) Where regulations have been made under subsection (5) of this section in respect of premises registered in the register of creameries, all separated milk required by those regulations to be pasteurised on those premises shall be pasteurised in accordance with such regulations.

(7) Where regulations have been made under subsection (5) of this section in respect of premises registered in the register of cream separating stations, all separated milk required by those regulations to be pasteurised on those premises shall be pasteurised in accordance with such regulations.

(8) In subsections (5), (6) and (7) of this section ‘separated milk’ means that part of milk remaining after removal therefrom of the fat, or most of the fat.

(9) The references to regulations contained in subsections (2) and (3) of this section shall be construed as not including references to regulations under subsection (5) of this section.”