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58 1924

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Number 58 of 1924.


DAIRY PRODUCE ACT, 1924.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

PRELIMINARY.

Section

1.

Short title and commencement.

2.

Definitions.

PART I.

CONDITIONS OF CLEANLINESS AND ORDER.

3.

Conditions of cleanliness and order.

4.

Inspection of premises manufacturing dairy produce.

5.

Appointment of arbitrator.

6.

Reference of notice to arbitration.

7.

Special provisions where notice requires repair, etc., of premises.

8.

Regulations in relation to arbitrations.

PART II.

EXPORT OF BUTTER.

9.

Export of butter.

10.

Inspection, etc., of butter.

11.

Order for examination of butter before export.

12.

Licences to export butter.

13.

Powers of officers of customs and excise.

PART III.

REGISTRATION OF PREMISES.

14.

Registers to be kept by Minister.

15.

Conditions of registration.

16.

Regulations applicable to registered creameries.

17.

Cream from registered creameries and cream-separating stations.

18.

Regulations applicable to registered manufacturing exporters.

19.

Regulations applicable to registered butter factories.

20.

Regulations applicable to non-manufacturing exporters.

21.

Application for registration of premises.

22.

Rectification and cancellation of registration.

23.

Publication of register, etc.

24.

Evidence of contents of registers.

25.

Power to inspector to inspect premises and plant.

26.

Register to be kept on registered premises.

27.

Regulations as to packing butter.

28.

Examination and classification of butter.

29.

Regulations as to marking butter and packages.

30.

Regulations as to pasteurising.

31.

Regulations as to plant and machinery.

32.

Regulations as to basis of calculation of price of milk and cream.

33.

Sale of butter on registered premises.

34.

Fees payable in respect of registered premises.

PART IV.

NATIONAL MARK FOR BUTTER.

35.

Establishment of national mark for butter.

36.

Duration of licences for use of national mark.

37.

Regulations in relation to national mark.

38.

Offences in relation to national mark.

PART V.

MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL.

39.

Unclean milk and cream.

40.

Inspection and sampling of milk and cream.

41.

Dirty butter.

42.

Meaning and use of word “creamery.”

43.

Application of word “creamery” to butter.

44.

Analysis of samples.

45.

Consultative council.

46.

General regulations.

47.

Saving clause as to powers under other Acts.

48.

Offences.

49.

Expenses.

FIRST SCHEDULE.

Plant and Machinery in Registered Creameries and Cream-separating Stations

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Plant and Machinery in premises registered in the register

THIRD SCHEDULE.

FEES

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Number 58 of 1924.


DAIRY PRODUCE ACT, 1924.


AN ACT TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE REGULATION OF THE MANUFACTURE, MARKETING, AND EXPORT OF DAIRY PRODUCE WITH A VIEW TO IMPROVING THE GENERAL STANDARD THEREOF, AND FOR THAT PURPOSE TO MAKE PROVISION FOR THE REGISTRATION AND CONTROL OF PREMISES ENGAGED IN THE MANUFACTURE OR SALE OF DAIRY PRODUCE, AND FOR THE MARKING OF SUCH PRODUCE, AND FOR OTHER MATTERS CONDUCIVE OR INCIDENTAL TO THE OBJECTS AFORESAID. [18th December, 1924.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS OF SAORSTÁT EIREANN AS FOLLOWS:—

PRELIMINARY.

Short title and commencement.

1. —(1) This Act may be cited for all purposes as the Dairy Produce Act, 1924.

(2) This Act shall come into operation on such day as may be fixed by an Order of the Minister either generally or with reference to any particular Part of this Act and different dates may be appointed for the coming into operation of different Parts of this Act.

Definitions.

2. —In this Act—

the expression “the Minister” means the Minister for Lands and Agriculture;

the word “butter” means the substance usually known as butter, made exclusively from milk or cream, or both, with or without salt or other preservative, and with or without the addition of colouring matter;

the expressions “margarine” and “milk-blended butter” have respectively the same meanings as in the Butter and Margarine Act, 1907;

the expression “creamery business” means the business of manufacturing butter from cream which has been separated by means of centrifugal force mechanically applied from the commingled milk supplies of a number of cow-keepers;

the expression “creamery butter” means butter which has been manufactured in premises registered in the register of creameries and has not been subsequently blended or re-worked;

the expression “cream-separating business” means the business of separating cream by means of centrifugal force mechanically applied from the commingled milk supplies of a number of cow-keepers;

the expression “mechanically applied” means applied by machinery driven by any motive power other than human or animal power;

the expression “butter factory” means premises on which by way of trade butter is blended, re-worked, or subjected to any other treatment, but not so as to cease to be butter;

the expression “butter factory business” means the business of blending and re-working butter or subjecting butter to any other treatment but not such as would cause it to cease to be butter.

the expression “register kept in pursuance of this Act” means a register which the Minister keeps or causes to be kept pursuant to this Act and does not include a register kept by a registered proprietor;

the word “manufacture” when used in relation to the manufacture of butter in butter factories includes the blending or the re-working of butter or both such blending and re-working;

the word “inspector” includes any person authorised in writing (either generally or for a special purpose) by the Minister to exercise all or any of the powers and perform all or any of the duties conferred and imposed on an inspector by this Act;

the expression “dairy produce” includes any article of human food made wholly or mainly from milk or from the products or by-products of milk;

the word “package” includes any box, case, kiel, keg, firkin, or other receptacle containing or capable of containing butter for transport, and, where the context so requires, includes the contents of such receptacle;

the word “wrapper” includes any paper, folder, carton or case used for packing or wrapping a piece of butter;

the word “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made under this Act.