Creamery (Amendment) Act, 1934

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Control of use of milk products and by-products.

5.—(1) The Minister may by order declare that this section shall apply to any specified description of business which consists wholly or substantially of the working, finishing, or otherwise making available for sale of any specified milk product or by-product or the making for sale of any specified description of article of which a specified milk product or by-product is an ingredient, and whenever the Minister makes any such order, every business of the description specified in such order shall, so long as such order remains in force, be a business to which this section applies.

(2) The Minister may at any time by order amend or revoke any order made by him under the next preceding sub-section of this section or any amending order made by him under this sub-section.

(3) It shall not be lawful for any person to carry on any business to which this section applies save under and in accordance with a licence in that behalf issued by the Minister under this section.

(4) The Minister may, if and whenever he so thinks fit, issue to any person a licence authorising such person or any person claiming through or under him to carry on a particular business to which this section applies, and the Minister may attach to any such licence such conditions as he shall think proper and shall specify in such licence.

(5) Every person who carries on in contravention of this section a business to which this section applies shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds together with, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine not exceeding ten pounds for every day during which such offence is continued.