Diseases of Animals Act, 1966

Pasteurising of separated milk.

57.—(1) The Minister may make regulations under the Dairy Produce Act, 1924 , 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 required by those regulations to be pasteurised on require the retention of such records for inspection and their being made available for inspection.

(2) Where regulations have been made under subsection (1) 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.

(3) Where regulations have been made under subsection (1) 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.

(4) In this section “separated milk” means that part of milk remaining after removal therefrom of the fat, or most of the fat.

(5) This section shall be construed as one with the Dairy Produce Act, 1924 .

(6) This section is in substitution for section 4 of the Diseases of Animals (Bovine Tuberculosis) Act, 1957 , repealed by this Act.