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13) Provisions as to offences; 



14) Interpretation; 



15) Application to London; 



1 6) Application to Ireland; 



17) Short title, commencement, extent, and repeal. 



Some of the more interesting Sections of the Bill are the foll- 

 owing : 



2. (i) If the milk from any dairy is being sold or used for human 

 consumption within the district of any sanitary authority, the me- 

 dical officer of health for athat district shall, whether the dairy is 

 situate within or without the district, have power at all reasonable 

 hours to enter and inspect the dairy, and if accompanied by a ve- 

 terinary inspector or some other properly qualified veterinary sur- 

 geon, to inspect the animals therein; 



Provided that if the dairy is not situate within the district of 

 the sanitary authority the medical officer of health, shall not be 

 empowered so to enter and inspect the dairy unless he has evi- 

 dence that infectious disease is caused, or is likely to be caused, 

 by consumption of the milk supplied from the dairy, and shall, 

 before inspecting the dairy, give notice of the intention to do so 

 to the clerk and medical officer of health of the district in which 

 the dairy is situate. 



2) If on any such inspection the medical officer of health or the 

 veterinary inspector or surgeon has reason to suspect that any cow 

 in the dairy is suffering from tuberculosis with emaciation or from 

 tuberculosis of the udder, or is giving tuberculous milk, he may 

 require the cow to be milked in his presence and may take sam- 

 ples of the milk, and the milk from any particular teat shall, if 

 he so requires, be kept separate, and separate samples thereof 

 furnished. 



3) Every dairyman and the persons in his employment shall 

 render such reasonable assistance to the medical officer of health 

 or a veterinary inspector or veterinary surgeon as he may require 

 for all or any of the purposes of this section, and any person re- 

 fusing such assistance or obstructing such medical officer of 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 poitnds. 



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 



