Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1956
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Amendment of Part VIII of Principal Act. |
27.—The following section is hereby inserted after section 53 of the Principal Act: | |
Assignment of milk sampling duties to health inspectors and veterinary officers. | ||
“53A.—(1) A sanitary authority may assign the duty of acting as a milk sampling officer in the whole or a part of its sanitary district to— | ||
(a) a health inspector, within the meaning of the Health Act, 1947 (No. 28 of 1947), of a health authority within whose functional area is situate the whole or that part of that sanitary district, or | ||
(b) a veterinary officer of that sanitary authority. | ||
(2) It shall not be necessary to obtain the consent of the Minister or of the Minister for Agriculture to an assignment under subsection (1) of this section. | ||
(3) A person to whom the duty of acting as a milk sampling officer is assigned under subsection (1) of this section shall be deemed to be a milk sampling officer for the purposes of this Act.” |