MILK AND DAIRIES BILL 441 



sumption by infants under two years of age, and purchase and 

 prepare milk and provide such laboratories, plant, and other things, 

 and exercise and perform such other powers and duties, as may be 

 necessary for the purposes of this section. 



This provision shall extend to any district (other than a rural 

 district) with a population of less than fifty thousand but not less 

 than ten thousand, if the sanitary authority of the district make an 

 application for the purpose to the Local Government Board and the 

 Board consent. 



(2) The Local Government Board may make regulations for 

 carrying into effect this section, and those regulations may (amongst 

 other things) contain provisions — 



(ffl) as to the sources of the milk to be obtained ; 



(b) as to the nature of the milk to be supplied ; 



(c) as to the manner in which, and the conditions under 



which, the milk is to be purchased, collected, conveyed, 

 delivered, prepared, stored, and sold, including the 

 classes of persons to be supplied, and the prices which 

 may be charged on sale ; 



(d) as to the plant and other things to be provided, and as 



to the purposes for which, and the manner in which, 

 and the conditions under which, they may be used ; 

 (e) as to the statistical and other records to be kept ; 



(/) as to the visitation of the homes of the persons supplied, 

 and as to any other mode of obtaining particulars 

 prescribed by the regulations with regard to those 

 persons ; 



(g) authorising and regulating the acquisition and appro- 

 priation of land for the purposes of this section, and 

 the disposal of any land so acquired ; 



(h) in the case of the Common Council and the council 

 of a municipal borough, as to the accounts of receipts 

 and expenditure under this Act to be kept by every 

 such council, and as to the audit of those accounts 

 in the same manner and subject to the same pro- 

 visions as to any matters incidental to the audit or 

 consequential thereon as the accounts of a county 

 council ; 



(i) authorising and regulating the borrowing of money by 

 a sanitary authority for the purposes of this section ; 



(j) as to the employment of officers ; 



(k) authorising the holding of local inquiries by the Local 

 Government Board for the purposes of this section, 

 and requiring returns and reports to be made to the 

 Board ; 



(l) facilitating the co-operation of any sanitary authority 



