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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

[No. 20

“Local Board” means the Local Board of Health constituted by “The Public Health Act, 1876”:

“District” means the area comprised within the jurisdiction of a Local Board:

“Inspector” means any person appointed by any Local Board to act as the inspector of dairies, cowsheds, and milk-shops or stores, and shall include any person to whom the Inspector may, with the consent of the Local Board, delegate his powers or any of them:

“Clerk” means any person appointed as Town Clerk under “The Municipal Corporations Act, 1886,” or holding an analogous appointment under any body included in the term “Local Board”:

“Dairy” means any building, shed, or place used for the purpose of depositing, keeping, or storing milk or cream:

“Cowshed” means any building, shed, stall, or covered place used for the purpose of milking, stalling, or stabling of cattle:

“Dairy premises” means any building, shed, land, or place used for stalling, grazing, feeding, or milking cattle for producing milk or cream to be sold or supplied, or any building for the deposit, keeping, or storing of milk or cream when so produced:

“Milk-shop or store” means any building, shed, or place used for the purpose of depositing, storing, or exposing milk or cream for the purpose of selling or disposing thereof:

“Dairyman” means the occupier of any dairy premises as herein defined, or any person engaged in the production of milk for sale or supply to other persons:

“Milk-vendor” means the occupier of any milk-shop or store as herein defined, or any person engaged in the distribution or storage of milk for sale or supply to other persons:

“Keep” means keep, retain, or to permit to remain, whether permanently or temporarily.

Registration.

2. It shall not be lawful for any person to carry on in any district the trade of dairyman or milk-vendor unless he is registered as such in accordance with these regulations.

3. There shall be kept at the office of the Local Board a register of all persons from time to time carrying on in the district the trade of dairyman or milk-vendor, and such register shall from time to time be revised and corrected.

4. The Local Board shall, in manner hereinafter mentioned, register every such person; but the fact of such registration shall not be deemed to authorise such person to occupy as a dairy, cowshed, milk-shop, or store any particular building, or in any way preclude any proceedings being taken against such person for non-compliance with or infringement of any of these regulations, or any further regulations which may hereafter be made for any of the purposes specified in the 3rd section of “The Public Health Act 1876 Amendment Act, 1881.”

5. Every person desiring to be registered shall fill in with the required particulars, and hand to the Clerk at the office of the Local Board or Local Boards within whose district or districts such person carries on, or proposes to carry on, the trade of dairyman or milk-vendor, an application to be provided for that purpose by the Local Board free of expense. The particulars required to be stated in such application shall be—

(a.) The occupation of the applicant, whether dairyman or milk-vendor:

(b.) The exact address of the place where he exercises or proposes to exercise such occupation:

(c.) The dimensions of his dairies, cowsheds, and milk-shops or stores:

(d.) The accustomed number of cattle milked or proposed to be milked on his dairy premises.

Such application shall be in the Form A in the Schedule hereto.

6. Within a reasonable time after the receipt by the Local Board of such application, and upon the Local Board being satisfied that the dairy premises or milk-shop or store of the applicant are in accordance with these regulations, the applicant shall be entitled to receive from the Local Board, free of expense, a certificate under the hand of the Clerk that he has been registered in accordance with the particulars so furnished. The said certificate shall be in the Form B in the Schedule hereto, and shall have attached thereto a copy of these regulations: Provided that the Clerk may issue temporary licenses pending a meeting of the Local Board.

7. The production in any legal proceedings of any such certificate purporting to be signed by the Clerk as aforesaid shall be prima facie evidence that the person described in such certificate has been registered in accordance with these regulations, without any further proof of the signature of the said Clerk, or of the fact that the person purporting to act in that capacity was validly appointed.

Inspection of Cattle in Dairies.

8. The Inspector shall from time to time visit the cowshed, and as far as possible the whole of the dairy premises, of each registered dairyman, for the purpose of inspecting the cattle milked, stalled, or kept there.

9. In case the Inspector shall have reason to suppose that a dairyman has disposed of any cow or cattle that he, the Inspector, may suspect to be diseased, the Inspector shall inquire as to the disposal thereof, and the dairyman shall fully disclose to the Inspector the mode of disposal of such cow or cattle, and shall disclose to the Inspector the name or names of the person or persons into whose possession the cow or cattle may have passed.

10. If the Inspector shall be of opinion that any one or more of the said cattle is or are diseased, or is or are in an unhealthy condition, the Inspector shall serve upon such dairyman a notice in writing, specifying or describing the cow or cows which is or are diseased or is or are in such unhealthy condition, and shall also, if in his opinion the state of the cattle or any of them is such as to warrant the course, certify in such notice that the sale of the milk from the dairy premises of such dairyman or from the specified cow or cows is likely to endanger the public health. Such notice shall be in the Form C in the Schedule hereto. A copy thereof shall be immediately transmitted to the Clerk.

11. After service of such notice upon the dairyman, and henceforth until notification to him of the cancellation of the Inspector’s certificate as hereinafter mentioned, the said dairyman—

(a.) Shall not mix any milk from the said dairy premises or from the said cow or cows, as the case may be, with other milk.

(b.) Shall not sell or use for human food any such milk.

(c.) Shall not sell or use for the food of swine or other animals any such milk.

12. At any time after receipt of such notice as last mentioned, such dairyman may serve a notice on the Inspector—

(a.) Stating that all the cattle on the said dairyman’s dairy premises are free from disease or are in a healthy condition; or

(b.) Stating (if such be the case) that the said cattle have been inspected by a veterinary surgeon (whose name and address shall be set out in such notice), and that such veterinary surgeon is of opinion that the specified cattle are not diseased, or are not in an unhealthy condition, or as the case may be.

13. Upon receipt of such notice the Inspector shall forthwith make a fresh inspection.

14. If the Inspector, upon such fresh inspection, shall be of opinion that such cattle are still in an unhealthy condition, the Inspector shall, accompanied by a veterinary surgeon approved by the Local Board, make a fresh inspection of such cattle. The dairyman shall be notified by the Inspector of such proposed inspection at least six hours prior thereto, and he shall be entitled to attend such inspection with a veterinary surgeon approved of by the Local Board, and confer as to the health and condition of the cattle. Within twenty-four hours after making such inspection the veterinary surgeon accompanying the Inspector shall notify him in writing whether any, and, if so, which, of the said cattle are suffering from any, and, if so, what, disease.

15. The decision of the veterinary surgeon accompanying the Inspector shall be final, and, if his notice shall render it necessary, the Inspector shall serve upon the dairyman an amended notice in pursuance thereof.

16. At any time after receipt of such last-mentioned notice such dairyman may notify the Inspector that the requisitions thereof have been complied with, and the Inspector shall thereupon make a further inspection: Provided always that no Inspector shall be compellable to inspect any dairy premises more than three times in any one month or four times in any two months.

17. If and so soon as it shall be made to appear to the Inspector from any inspection, or from any such notice of the veterinary surgeon accompanying him, that the requisitions (if any) which shall have been made have been complied with, or have from any cause whatever become undesirable or unnecessary, and that the danger to the public health has ceased to exist, he shall thereupon cancel his certificate, and shall immediately transmit to the said dairyman a notice in writing to that effect signed by him. Such notice shall be in the Form D in the Schedule hereto.

Construction, &c., and Water-supply of Dairies, Cowsheds, &c.

18. It shall not be lawful for any person following the trade of dairyman to occupy or use as a dairy or cowshed any building, whether so occupied or used at the commencement of these regulations or not, if and so long as the construction, lighting, and ventilation, including air-space, and the cleansing, drainage, and water-supply thereof, are not in conformity with the requirements of these regulations.