Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1956

Amendment of section 29 of Principal Act.

21.—Section 29 of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following subsection:

“(5) Where, in a prosecution for an offence under section 24 of this Act consisting of carrying on the business of dairyman in a sanitary district otherwise than in premises, a certificate under subsection (3) of this section shows that the defendant was not during a specified time registered in the register of dairymen kept by the sanitary authority of that sanitary district, it shall be presumed, unless and until the contrary is shown by the defendant, that the defendant is not registered in the register of dairymen kept by any other sanitary authority.”