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the making of this Order prepared for use by a Local Authority 

 under the Dairies, Cowsheds, and Milkshops Order of July 1879, 

 or any Order revoked thereby, may be used, as far as they are 

 suitable, for the purposes of this Order. 



Scotland. 



17. Nothing in this Order shall be deemed to interfere with the 

 operation of the Cattle Sheds in Burghs (Scotland) Act, 1866. 



This Order was amended in 1886 by the substitution of 

 the Local Government Board for the Privy Council, and by 

 the provision of a penalty. The penalty clause is Article 3, 

 vfhich enacts : " If any person is guilty of an offence against 

 the Order of 1885, he shall for every such offence be liable to 

 a penalty of Five Pounds, and in the case of a continuing 

 offence to a further penalty of Forty Shillings for each day 

 after written notice of the offence from the Local Authority. 

 Provided, nevertheless, that the justices or court before whom 

 any complaint may be made, or any proceedings may be taken 

 in respect of any such offence, may, if they think fit, adjudge 

 the payment as a penalty of any sum less than the full amount 

 of the penalty imposed by this Order." 



A further Order was issued in 1899, which amended 

 Article 15 of the 1885 Order in an important direction as 

 follows : " Article 1 5 of the Order shall be altered so that, 

 for the purposes of the provisions of paragraphs (a) and (V) 

 thereof, the expressions in the said Article which refer to 

 disease shall include, in the case of a cow, such disease of the 

 udder as shall be certified by a veterinary surgeon to be 

 tubercular ; and the Order and the Amending Order shall 

 apply and be construed with the modifications necessary to 

 give effect to this Article." 



Under Article 1 3 of the 1885 Order a Local Authority has 

 power to make regulations for certain specific purposes. The 

 Local Government Board have issued Model Eegulations, and 

 as these have been widely followed they are given in extenso : 



