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authority, he fails to show such cause, then the local authority may 

 make such order as aforesaid ; and the local authority shall forth- 

 with give notice of the facts to the sanitary authority and county 

 council (if any) of the district or county in which such dairj^ is 

 situate, and also to the Local Government Board. An order made 

 by a local authority, in pursuance of this section, shall be forthwith 

 withdrawn on the local authority, or the medical officer of health 

 on its behalf, being satisfied that the milk supply has been changed, 

 or that the cause of the infection has been removed. Any person 

 refusing to permit the medical officer of health, on the production 

 of such order as aforesaid, to inspect any dairy, or if so accom- 

 panied as aforesaid, to inspect the animals kept there, or after any 

 such order not to supply milk as aforesaid has been given, supply- 

 ing any milk within the district in contravention of such order, or 

 selling it for consumption therein, shall be deemed guilty of an 

 offence against this Act. Provided always, that proceedings in 

 respect of such offence shall be taken before the justices of the 

 peace having jurisdiction in the place where the said dairy is situate. 

 Provided also, that no dairyman shall be liable to an action for 

 breach of contract, if the breach be due to an order from the local 

 authority under this Act. 



" Dairy " shall include any farm, farmhouse, cowshed, milk-store, 

 milk-shop, or other place from which milk is supplied, or in which 

 milk is kept for purposes of sale ; " dairyman " shall include any 

 cowkeeper, purveyor of milk, or occupier of a dairy. 



Certain sections of another adoptive Act, The Public 

 Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, also deal with milk. 

 These sections are as follows : 



Section 52. — (1) If any person knows that he is suffering from 

 an infectious disease, he shall not engage in any occupation or 

 carry on any trade or business unless he can do so without risk of 

 spreading the infectious disease. 



(2) If any person acts in contravention of this section, he shall 

 be liable in respect of each offence to a penalty not exceeding forty 

 .shillings. 



Section 53. — (1) If the medical officer certifies to the local 

 authority that any person in the district is suffering from infectious 

 disease, which the medical officer has reason to suspect is attribut- 

 able to milk supplied within the district, the local authority may 

 require the dairyman supplying the milk to furnish to the medical 

 officer within a reasonable time fixed by them a complete list of all 

 the farms, dairies, or places from which his supply of milk is derived, 

 or has been derived during the last six weeks, and if the supply, 

 or any part of it, is obtained through any other dairyman, may 

 make a similar requisition upon that dairyman. 



