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comply with the requirements of the Act. The authority to carry out alterations 

 is subject to conditions laid down in this Article. 



Enactments Repealed by the Operation of this Act. The whole of the Con- 

 tagious Diseases (Animals) Act of 1878 as applying to Scotland. 



The Contagious Diseases (Animals) Act, 1886, applying to Scotland. 



Public Health (Scotland) Act, 1897, Sections 60 and 61. 



Burgh Police (Scotland) Act, 1903, Sections 83, 84, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92. 



MILK AND DAIRIES (CONSOLIDATION) ACT, 1915. 



Power is given to the L.G.B. (see Ministry of Health Act) to make Milk 

 and Dairy Orders for, briefly, the following purposes : the registration of 

 dairymen and dairies; the inspection of dairy cattle, dairies and persons con- 

 nected with them ; for regulating lighting, ventilation, cleansing, drainage and 

 water supply of dairies; for securing the cleansing of milk-stores and 

 utensils, &c. ; for protecting milk against infection or contamination; for 

 preventing danger to health from the sale of infected, contaminated or dirty 

 milk ; for regulating the cooling, conveyance and distribution of milk ; for label- 

 ling, marking and sealing of milk vessels; for prohibiting the addition of 

 colouring matter; for prohibiting or regulating the addition of skimmed or 

 separated milk or water or any other substance to milk intended for human 

 consumption, or the abstraction of butter-fat or any other constituent ; and for 

 prohibiting or regulating the sale for human consumption of such milk or milk 

 which has been otherwise artificially treated; for authorising the use of the 

 designation " certified milk " and for generally controlling the sale of certified 

 milk; for authorising a local authority to make regulations for the above 

 purposes, subject to the approval of the L.G.B. (now Ministry of Health). 



Milk and Dairy Orders shall be made by the L.G.B. with the concurrence of 

 the Ministry of Agriculture. 



MILK AND DAIRIES BILL. 



This Bill is designed to secure amendments in the above Act. Its main 

 provisions are to provide for the licensing of dairymen and dairies, to extend 

 the provisions of the Act in regard to the classification of milk, to make pro- 

 vision for the undertaking by sanitary authorities, with the approval of the 

 Ministry of Health, of the supply and distribution of milk or the cleansing and 

 storage, &c., of milk for sale by dealers, and for the constitution of Milk and 

 Dairies Committees by the local authorities who will administer the Act. 



SALE OF FOOD AND DRUGS ACT, 1875. 



Mixing Injurious Ingredients with Food. No person shall mix, colour, 

 stain or powder or permit any other person to mix, colour, stain or powder any 

 article of food with any ingredient or material so as to render the article injurious 

 to health, with intent that the same may be sold in that state, and no person 

 shall sell any such article so mixed, coloured, &c. 



Mixing Drugs with Injurious Ingredients. No person shall, except for the 

 purpose of compounding (as described), mix, colour, stain or powder or permit 

 any other person to mix, &c., any drug with any material so as to affect injuri- 

 ously the quality or potency of the drug, with intent that the same may be sold 

 in that state, and no person may sell any article so treated. The penalty for 

 the above may be 50 for the first offence. 



Sale of Articles of Food and Drugs not of proper Nature, Substance and 

 Quality. No person shall sell to the prejudice of the purchaser any article of 

 food or any drug which is not of the nature, substance and quality demanded. 

 The penalty may be 20. This does not apply (1) where any matter or ingredient 

 not injurious to health has been added to the food or drug when required for 

 the production or preparation as an article of commerce, in a state fit for carriage 

 or consumption, and not fraudulently to increase the bulk, weight or measure, 

 or to conceal inferior quality; (2) where the food or drug is a proprietary 



