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health or veterinary inspector or veterinary surgeon in carrying 

 out the provisions of this section shall on summary conviction be 

 liable to a fine not exceeding five pounds. 



(4) If on any such inspection the medical officer of health is 

 of opinion that infectious disease is caused or is likely to be 

 caused by consumption of the milk supplied from the dairy, or of 

 the milk of any particular cow kept therein, he shall report thereon 

 to the sanitary authority, and to the Local Government Board, and 

 his report shall be accompanied by any report furnished to him by 

 the veterinary inspector or veterinary surgeon, and the medical 

 officer of health, if he considers the case to be one of urgency on 

 account of the spread or suspected spread of infectious disease, 

 may, pending the decision of the sanitary authority, 



(a) agree on behalf of the sanitary authority with the dairy- 



man, that the dairyman shall, on such terms and to 

 such extent and subject to such conditions as may be 

 agreed, stop the supply and use of milk from his dairy 

 or from any particular cow kept therein ; or 



(b) make an interim order prohibiting the supply for human 



consumption, or the use, or supply for use, in the 

 manufacture of products for human consumption, of 

 milk from the dairy or from any particular cow kept 

 therein, until the expiration of such time not exceed- 

 ing ten days, as may be specified in the order, either 

 absolutely or unless such conditions as may be pre- 

 scribed in the order are complied with ; or 



(c) refer the matter to the sanitary authority, 



and where the matter is so referred to them the sanitary authority 

 may, pending their final decision, make such interim agreement or 

 order as the medical officer of health might have made. 



(5) On the receipt of such a report the sanitary authority may 

 serve on the dairyman notice to appear before them within such 

 time, not less than twenty-four hours, as may be specified in the 

 notice, to show cause why an order should not be made prohibiting 

 him, either absolutely or unless such conditions as may be pre- 

 scribed in the order are complied with, from supplying for human 

 consumption, or using, or supplying for use, in the manufacture of 

 products for human consumption, any milk from the dairy or from 

 any particular cow kept therein until the order has been withdrawn 

 in accordance with the provisions of this section. 



(6) The sanitary authority, if in their opinion the dairyman 

 fails to show such cause, may make such order as aforesaid specify- 

 ing the ground on which the order is made, and shall forthwith 

 serve a copy of the order on the dairyman, and shall serve notice 

 of the facts on the council of the county in which the dairy is 

 situate, and on the Local Government Board, the Board of Agri- 



