Milk and Dairies Act, 1935

Sale of separated or skimmed milk.

61.—(1) The Minister, after consultation with the Minister for Agriculture, may by order make regulations under this section requiring every tin or other receptacle, in which separated or skimmed milk is sold or exposed or offered for sale, to be labelled or marked in the manner provided by such regulations.

(2) If any person sells, or exposes or offers for sale any separated or skimmed milk in any tin or other receptacle which is not labelled or marked in the manner provided by regulations made under this section, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.

(3) Sub-section (1) of section 1 of the Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907, as amended by section 23 of the Local Government Act, 1925 (No. 5 of 1925), shall be construed and have effect as if the words “skimmed or separated” now contained in paragraph (d) of the said sub-section, as so amended, were omitted therefrom.