DAIRIES REGULATIONS

DAIRIES REGULATIONS

DAIRIES REGULATIONS.

ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS 8.

Regulation.

PART 1.

PRELIMINARY.

1. Citation ................................. ... ... ... ... ... D3
2. Interpretation ........................... ... ... ... ... ... D3

PART II.

REGISTRATION OF DAIRYMEN.

3................Registration of dairymen ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... D 3

4................................Information required from dairyman seeking registration ... ... ... D4

5.....................................Carrying and production of certificate of registration by dairyman ... D4

PART III.

LICENSING AND CONTROL OF DAIRIES.

6............................Prohibition of maintaining dairy without licence ... ... ... ... ... D4

7.....................................Dairy to be maintained only at premises, etc., specified in licence ... D4

8................................Power of Director to issue licence to maintain dairy, etc . ... ... ... D 4

9........................................Application for licence to be accompanied by plan of premises, etc. D 5

10.............................Special grounds for refusal to grant or renew licence ... ... ... ... D 5

11.......................................Prohibition of alteration. etc. of premises at which dairy is maintained D 6
12.......................................Provisions as to construction of premises at which dairy is maintained, etc. D 6

13....................Removal of contents of catch-pit ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... D 7

14.............Disposal of effluent ..... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... D 7

15..................Walls, etc. to be lime-washed ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... D 7

16...............Cleansing, etc. of dairies ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... D 7

17...........Storage of milk ............... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... D 7

18.......................................Design and construction of vessels and utensils used for containing milk D 7

19....................................Provisions as to prevention of infection or contamination of milk ... D 7

20.......................Drinking from milk vessels prohibited ... ... ... ... ... ... ... D 9





Regulation. Page.

21. Control of spitting in dairies ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... D 9

22. Immunization of dairyman, etc. against certain diseases, etc . ... ... ... D 9

23. Restriction on use of milk from diseased animal ... ... ... ... ... ... D 9

24. Registered dairymen to give notice of illness in certain cases ... ... ... D10

25. Licensee to give notice of disease among cattle in dairy or among animals associated
therewith ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... D 10

26. Register of herd to be kept ... ... ... ... D 10

PART IV.

OFFENCES AND PENALTIES.

27................Offences and penalties .... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... D10

PART V.

SUPPLEMENTARY AND MISCELLANEOUS.

28.......................Examination of persons and animals ... ... ... ... ... ... ... D11

29........................................Medical examination, etc. of persons engaged or employed in a dairy D11

30. Power of health officer to stop supply, etc. of milk from dairy in certain

cases .................................. ... ... ... ... ... ... ... D 12

31. Power of inspector to take samples and procedure in connexion therewith D 12

'17- and certificate as to result thereof ... ... ... ... ... ... D 13

certifocate of certain provisions to result of Public



33. Application of certain provisions of Pub ic Services
----W

Ordinance ............................... ... ... ... ... ... Q-1

Schedule...Form................................ ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... D 13





DAIRIES REGULATIONS.

(Cap. 139, section 3).

[11th November, 1960.1

PART I.

PRELIMINARY.

1. These regulations may be cited as the Dairies Regulations.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires-

'dairyman' includes any keeper of cows or buffaloes for the purpose of
trade in milk, and any occupier of a dairy, and in cases where a
dairy is owned by a corporation or company includes the secretary
or other person actually managing such dairy;

'disease' means any disease of an infectious or contagious nature, and
includes, in the case of cattle, any disease of the udder which is
liable to cause contamination of the milk;

'health officer' has the meaning assigned to it by section 2 of the
Ordinance and, in addition, includes any veterinary officer and any
person for the time.being performing the duties of a veterinary
officer;

'licensee' means any person licensed under regulation 8 to maintain a
dairy;

'public analyst' means the Government Chemist, the Government
Pathologist and any analyst appoint ed by the Governor for the c

purpose of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance;

'register' means the register of dairymen kept by the Director pursuant
to the provisions of paragraph (1) of regulation 3;

'registered dairyman' means a dairyman whose name is, for the time
being, entered in the register.

PART 11.

REGISTRATION OF
DAIRYMEN.

3. (1) The Director shall keep a register of dairymen.

(2) No person shall carry on the trade of a dairyman unless his
name is entered in the register.

(3) Where the Director enters the name of any person in the
register, he shall issue to such person a certificate of registration on
which shall be affixed a photograph of such person.





(4) The Director may, where he thinks fit, enter the name of any
person in the register on such terms or conditions as he may determine.

(5) The Director may, at any time, remove the name of any person
from the register.

4. The name of any person shall not be entered in the register
unless he has furnished full information to the satisfaction of the
Director as to his residence, the place where the milk is kept for sale, the
place where the milk is produced, the place where the cattle are kept, the
nature of his water supply and the general suitability of his
arrangements for carrying on the trade of a dairyman.

5. Any registered dairyman shall, whilst purveying or selling milk,
carry his certificate of registration with him, and shall produce it when
demanded by any health officer or any inspector.

PART Ill.

LICENSING AND CONTROL OF
DAIRIES.

6. Save under and in accordance with a licence issued by the
Director under regulation 8, no person shall maintain a dairy.

7. No dairy shall be maintained at any premises or place other than
the premises or place specified in such licence.

8. (1) Upon application in the form prescribed by the Director, the
Director may g grant a licence to any person to maintain a dairy and may
renew the same.

(2) Every such licence and every renewal thereof shall expire on the
3 1st day of December

(3) Save as provide paragraph (4), a fee of

(a) four hundred and eighty dollars; or

(b) twelve dollars for each cow or buffalo over the age of
twe ve ontwhich, in the case of a new such licence,
is to be kep in the dairy on the commencement of the
licence, or, i the case of the renewal of any such licence,
is kept in th dairy on the I st day of January,

whichever is the greater, shall be payable on the grant or renewal of any
such licence.

(4) Where any such licence is granted on or after the I st day of July
in any year, the fee payable in respect thereof shall be
one-half of the fee prescribed in
in paragraph (3).





(5) Any such licence and any renewal thereof shall be subject to
such terms and conditions as the Director may determine and shall not
be transferable.

(6) Every such licence and any renewal thereof shall specify the
premises at which the dairy may be maintained.

9. (1) Every application for the grant of any such licence shall be
accompanied by two copies of a plan, as nearly as may be to scale, of
the premises at which it is proposed to maintain the dairy.

(2) Every such plan shall also show the following-

(a)the situation of the premises at which it is proposed to
maintain the dairy; and

(b)the situation, in relation to such premises, of any premises
adjacent thereto.

(3) Both copies of every such plan which is approved by the
Director shall be endorsed to that effect by him and one of such copies
shall be returned to the applicant and the other retained by the Director.

(4) Every such application shall also be accompanied by particulars
of the method for the disposal of effluent from such premises.

10. (1) Without prejudice to the discretion of the Director with
respect to the refusal of the grant or renewal of any such licence, no
such licence shall, save as provided in paragraph (2), be granted or
renewed unless the Director is satisfied

(a)that a plan of the premises at which the applicant or the
licensee, as the case may be, proposes to maintain or is
maintaining the dairy has been approved under regulation 9
and that the premises conform thereto, or, in the case of the
renewal of a licence where such premises have been altered or
added to, that the alteration or addition has been made in
accordance with regulation 11

(b)that such premises are in accordance with the provisions of
regulation 12; and

(c)as to the method for the disposal of effluent from any building
or other place in which cattle are kept or which is a milk room.

(2) The Director may grant or renew any such licence
notwithstanding that he is not satisfied as to any one or more or all of
the matters specified in sub-paragraph (b) or (c) of paragraph (1) if a
health officer, other than a veterinary officer or a person performing the
duties of a veterinary officer, is satisfied that to do so will not be to the
prejudice of the public health.





11. (1) Where a plan of any premises at which it is proposed to
maintain a dairy has been approved under regulation 9, no person shall
thereafter, save with the permission in writing of the Director, make

(a)any alteration or addition to such premises which results in a
deviation in a material particular from the plan of such premises
approved, for the time being, by the Director; or

(b)any material alteration in respect of any of the matters in
respect of which provision is made in regulation 12.

(2) The Director may refuse to give his permission for the making of
any such alterations or additions as are specified in sub-paragraph (a) of
paragraph (1) until he has received and approved a plan showing the
same.

12. (1) Every building or other place in which cattle are kept in any
dairy or which is a milk room shall be adequately lighted and ventilated.

(2) The floor of every such building or other place shall be

paved with a laver of not less than half an six inches of lime-concrete
or not less than three inches of cement-concrete composed of one
part of cement, three parts of sand and five parts of stone broken
to pass thruogh a one inch ring.

(3) The surface of every such floor shall be rendered and
maintained smooth and 1 jervip wtth a layer of asphalt or
cement mortar not less half an inch in other material of such nature and
thickness as the Director may approve.

(4) The following provisions shall apply to every building or other
place in which cattle are kept in any dairy

(a) the height of such building or place, at its lowest part,
shall be not less than twelve feet, and

(b) the floor thereof shall-

(i) be raised not less than eight inches above the level
of the ground surrounding such building or place;

(ii) have a slope of not less than one in sixty; and

(iii) communicate directly, by means of an independent
drain, constructed to the satisfaction of the Director, with a
covered cement catch-pit.

(5) (a) In every such building or other place in which cattle
are kept, every animal shall have-
(i) not less than thirty two squares feet of floor space;
and
(ii) not less than three hundred and sixty cubic feet
of air space.





(b)For the purposes of this paragraph, two calves, being less than
twelve months of age, shall be deemed to be one animal.

(6) No water closet, dry closet, earth closet or urinal shall be within,
or communicate directly with, any building or other place in which cattle
are kept in any dairy or which is a milk room.

13. The contents of every catch-pit provided in any dairy in
accordance with the provisions of sub-sub-paragraph (iii) of
subparagraph (b) of paragraph (4) of regulation 12 shall be removed
therefrom not less than once in every twenty-four hours.

14. The efiluent from any building or other place in which cattle are
kept in any dairy or which is a milk room shall at all times be disposed of
to the satisfaction of the Director.

15. The whole of the interior walls (unless exempted by the Director)
and the ceilings of any building or other place in which cattle are kept in
any dairy or which is a milk room shall be properly lime-washed during
the months of January and July of each year.

16. (1) Every building or other place in which cattle are kept in any
dairy or to which cattle have access or which is a milk room shall be
thoroughly cleansed as often as may be necessary to ensure that the
same is at all times clean to the satisfaction of an inspector.

(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of regulation 15, every
building or other place in which cattle are kept in any dairy or which is a
milk room shall be scraped and lime-washed whenever required by the
Director.

(3) The floor of every such building or other place shall be
thoroughly cleansed and all offensive matter removed therefrom not less
than once in every twenty-four hours.

(4) A supply of clean fresh water sufficient for compliance with the
requirements of this regulation shall be provided in every dairy.

17. No milk intended for sale shall be deposited or kept in any place
in any dairy, other than in a milk room or, pending the removal to a milk
room, in any place in which cattle are milked.

18. No receptacle or other utensil shall be used in any dairy for
containing milk intended for sale unless the same is of such design and
constructed of such material as the Director has, for the time being,
approved.

19. (1) All reasonable and proper precautions shall be taken in and
in connexion with the milking of animals, and the cooling, processing,
handling, storage and distribution of milk, to prevent milk becoming
infected or contaminated.





(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of
paragraph (1), the following provisions shall apply in connexion with the
milking of animals and the cooling, processing, handling, storage and
distribution of milk

(a)the milking of animals shall be carried out in a good and proper
light whether in the day time or during the hours of darkness;

(b)immediately before any animal is milked, all dirt on or around
the flanks, tail, udder and teats of the animal shall be removed,
and the udder and teats shall be kept thoroughly clean during
milking;

(c)the hands of any person who milks any animal shall be
thoroughly washed before he commences the milking and
shall, at all times when he is engaged in the milking of any
animal, be kept clean, free from contamination and, as far as
practicable, dry;

(d)as soon as possible after any animal has been milked, the milk
shall be removed to a milk room and, pending its removal, shall
be kept in a covered receptacle;

(e)when any milk has been so removed to a milk room, it shall be
placed in a receptacle approved by the Director under
regulation 18 and shall thereafter be kept in such receptacle
until it is inserted into a pasteurization plant or, where the milk
is conveyed from the dairy to a pasteurization plant in a milk
tanker, until it is inserted into the milk tanker;

no room shall be used as a milk room unless its use for that
purpose has been approved by the Director;

(g)a milk room shall not be used for any purpose other than the
cooling, processing, handling and storage of milk and the
cleansing and storing of any appliances, receptacles and other
utensils used in the milking of animals or in the cooling,
processing, handling, storage or distribution of milk;

(h)no article, other than appliances, receptacles and other
utensils used in the milking of animals or in the cooling,

processing, handling, storage or distribution of milk, shall be
deposited in a milk room;

(i)every appliance, receptacle and other utensil used in the
milking of animals or in the cooling, processing, handling,
storage or distribution of milk shall, after each occasion on
which it has been used and before it is used again, be
thoroughly rinsed and washed and thereafter sterilized by
steam or immersion in boiling water for a period of not less
than five mnute,~,and

(j) the interior of e, 1

1 rry or other vehicle shall, when
the same is being used for the conveyance of milk, be kept in a
clean condition.





20. No person shall drink out of any appliance, receptacle or other
utensil used in any dairy in the milking of animals or in the cooling,
processing, handling, storage or distribution of milk intended for sale.

21. (1) No person shall spit in any building or other place in which
cattle are kept in any dairy or which is a milk room.

(2) No person shall spit in any other part of a dairy save into
spittoons or other receptacles provided for the purpose.

(3) A notice or notices, of a size and in a form approved by the
Director and in a language prescribed by him, prohibiting spitting shall
be conspicuously displayed in any part of a dairy in which cattle are
kept or which is a milk room.

(4) A sufficient quantity of disinfectant fluid shall be kept in every
spittoon or other receptacle provided in a dairy.

(5) Every spittoon or other receptacle provided in a dairy shall be
thoroughly cleansed daily.

22. (i) No registered dairyman and no person who is employed in
any dairy shall be engaged therein unless he has-

(a)within the preceding period of three years, been vaccinated
against smallpox; and

(b)within the preceding period of one year, been inoculated against
the enteric group of fevers.

(2) The Director of Medical and Health Services may from time to
time by notification published in the Gazette require registered dairymen
and other persons engaged in any dairy to be immunized against such
other diseases as may be specified in such notification.

(3) No person suffering from a disease or having recently been in
contact with a person so suffering shall be in any dairy or milk any
animal or handle any vessel used for the reception of milk or in any way
take part in the conduct of the production, preparation, storage,
distribution or sale of milk.

23. The milk of a diseased animal or of any animal which has been in
contact with or associated with a diseased animal and any milk which is
in the opinion of a health officer likely to have become or to become
contaminated-

(a) shall not be mixed with other milk;

(b) shall not be sold as human food; and

(c) shall not be sold or used as food for animals save with the
permission of a health officer.





24. Where any registered dairyman knows that he or any person
who resides in the premises in which he resides or who is employed by
him in any dairy is suffering from any disease, he shall forthwith give
notice in writing thereof to a health officer.

25. Where the licensee of any dairy knows that any disease exists
among any of the cattle kept in the dairy, or among other animals
associated with such cattle, he shall forthwith give notice in writing
thereof to the Director or the senior veterinary officer.

26. (1) Every registered dairyman shall keep a herd register on a
form to be supplied by the Director. He shall enter therein in black ink
particulars of each and every animal kept or received by him. He shall
make all necessary entries therein promptly so that the register forms an
up-to-date record of his herd. In the case of any animal which ceases to
be kept by him, the dairyman shall cancel the particulars aforesaid by
means of a thin line in red ink in such a manner as not to render such
particulars illegible. In addition. he shall enter in red ink in the remarks
column, the date of the departure of such animal from the dairy and the
place to which it has been sent and, if required by any inspector, shall
produce a receipt or other document verifying the date of departure of
the animal and its destination. In the case of the death of an animal, the
date and cause of death, and the manner and place of disposal of the
carcass, shall be entered in red ink in the appropriate columns and the
registered dairyman shall, if required by any inspector, produce
documentary evidence verifying such particulars. All entries shall be in
the English language. All entries shall be complete and accurate.

(2) Any such register shall be produced by the registered dairyman
for inspection on demand by any inspector.

(3) The loss of any such register shall be reported by the registered
dairyman without delay to the Director or to an inspector.

PART IV.

OFFENCES AND PENALTIES.

27. (1) Any person who contravenes the provisions of paragraph (2)
of regulation 3 or of regulation 6 or 7 shall be guilty of an offence and
shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars.

(2) Any person who-

(a)contravenes the provisions of regulation 20 or of paragraph (1)
or (2) of regulation 21 or paragraph (1) or (3) of regulation 22;

(b)fails to comply with any of the requirements of a notification
published in the Gazette under the provisions of





paragraph (2) of regulation 22 or of an order made under
the provisions of paragraph (1) of regulation 29 or
paragraph (1) of regulation 30;
(e)engages in the business of, or is employed in, any dairy
in contravention of paragraph (2) of regulation 29; or
(d)contravenes any terms or conditions imposed by the
Director under the provisions of paragraph (5) of regula-
tion 8 or any conditions specified in an order made under
the provisions of paragraph (1) of regulation 30,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary con-
viction to a fine of one thousand dollars.

(3) Any registered dairyman who contravenes any of the
provisions of regulation 5, 24 or 26 shall be guilty of an offence
and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of one
thousand dollars.
(4) In the event of any contravention of any of the provisions
of regulation 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23 or 25 or of
paragraph (3), (4) or (5) of regulation 21, the licensee of the dairy
in which, or in respect of which, such contravention occurred shall
be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction
to a fine of one thousand dollars.

(5) Where any offence under these regulations is a continuing
offence, any person who is guilty of such offence shall, in addition
to the penalty provided therefor under paragraph (1), (2), (3) or
(4), as the case may be, be liable to a fine of fifty dollars for each
day during which it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that
the offence has continued.

PART V.

SUPPLEMENTARY AND MISCELLANEOUS.

28. Whenever a health officer has reason to suspect that any
person in the Colony is suffering from a disease attributable to
milk supplied from any dairy, or is of opinion that the consump-
tion of milk from any dairy is likely to cause disease to any person,
he may medically examine any person residing or employed therein,
and may inspect and examine the animals therein and the carcasses
of any animals which may have died therein.

29. (1) A health officer may order any person engaged or
employed in any capacity in any dairy to submit himself for such
medical examination at such time and place as may be designated
by such health officer.

(2) If, after such medical examination, it is the opinion of
a health officer that the employment of such person in a dairy
has caused, or is likely to cause, the spread of disease to man or
animal, such person shall be notified in writing by the Director
and he shall forthwith cease to engage in the business of, or to
be employed in, any dairy until he obtains a medical certificate





to the satisfaction of a health officer that he is no longer likely to cause
the spread of disease to man or animal.

30. (1) If any health officer is of opinion that-

(a)any disease is caused, or is likely to be caused, by the
consumption of the milk supplied from any dairy; or

(b)the public health is, or is likely to be, endangered by any act or
default of any dairyman in any dairy.

such health officer may, by order in writing, prohibit the supply,
distribution or sale of milk from such dairy or of specified milk therefrom

(i) absolutely; or

(ii) save in accordance with such conditions as may be specified in
such order.

(2) Neither the licensee of the dairy nor any other person shall be
entitled to any compensation for any damage or loss which he may
sustain in consequence of the making of an order under the provisions
of paragraph (1).

31. (1) An inspector may, for the purpose of analysis or other
examination, take samples of any milk while the same is at the dairy at
which the animals from which it was obtained are kept.

(2) In connexion with the taking under the provisions of paragraph
(1) of a sample of any milk, the inspector may take such steps at the
dairy as may be necessary to satisfy himself that thfsample is a fair
sample of the milk of the animals when properly and fully milked.


(3) An inspector who, under the provisions of paragraph (1), has
taken a sample of any milk shall-

(a) forthwith divide such sample into three parts, each part to be
marked and sealed or fastened up, and shall give one part of
the sample to the licensee of the dairy and, of the remaining two
parts of the sample shall, unless he decides not to have an
analysis made, personally submit one of such parts to the public
analyst and retain the other for future comparison; and

(b)if such be the case, inform the person to whom the part of the sample
was given that the sample was taken for the purpose of analysis by
the public analyst.

(4) Any part of a sample which, under the provisions of this
regulation, is to be given to any person may be given either by
delivering the same to him or to his agent.

(5) In any proceedings under these regulations in which any sample
taken under the provisions of paragraph (1) is relevant, the part of the
sample retained by the inspector shall be produced at the hearing.





32. (1) The public analyst shall, as soon as practicable, analyse any
sample submitted to him in pursuance of regulation 31 and shall give to
the inspector by whom the same was submitted to him for analysis a
certificate, in the appropriate form set out in the Schedule, specifying the
results of the analysis.

(2) A certificate of the result of an analysis given by a public analyst in
pursuance of the provisions of this regulation shall be signed by the
public analyst, but the analysis may be made by any person acting under
his directions.

(3) Any person to whom a part of the sample which was
analysed by the public analyst was given in accordance with the provisions
of sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (3) of regulation 31 shall be entitled, on
payment of a fee of one dollar, to be supplied with a copy of such
certificate.

33. In and in connexion with any proceedings under these
regulations in which any sample taken under the provisions of
paragraph (1) of regulation 31 is relevant, the provisions of sub-
sections (1) and (2) of section 65, and of subsection (1) of section
66, of the Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance, shall
apply mutatis mutandis, as they apply to proceedings under Part
V of that Ordinance.

SCHEDULE. [reg. 32.]

DAIRIES REGULATIONS.
Regulation 32.

CERTIFICATE OF
ANALYSIS.

To .......................................

I, the undersigned, being a public analyst, do hereby certify that, on

the ...............day of 19 , I received from
.................. a sealed packet marked ..................
said to contain a sample of milk, that I found the seals intact and that I have
analysed the contents of the said packet and declare the result of my analysis
to be as follows.

I am of opinion that the same is a genuine sample of milk.



I am of opinion that the said ple contained the parts as under or the foreign
ingredients as under . .....................................................

............ .

Observations.

. ................................................................

....................................................... .. ..................................................






............. ..................................................
As witness my hand this day of ..19
................................

Government Chemist
(or as the case may be).

Note-All percentages given in definitions or standards prescribed are, unless,
otherwise specified, percentages by weight.
G.N.A. 126/60. G.N.A. 133/60. Citation. Interpretation. (Cap. 132.) Registration of dairymen. Information required from dairyman seeking registration. Carrying and production of certificate of registration by dairyman. Prohibition of maintaining dairy without licence. Dairy to be maintained only at premises, etc. specified in licence. Power of Director to issue licence to maintain dairy, etc. Application for licence to be accompanied by plan of premises, etc. Special grounds for refusal to grant or renew licence. Prohibition of alteration, etc. of premises at which dairy is maintained. Provisions as to construction of premises at which dairy is maintained, etc. Removal of contents of catch-pit. Disposal of effluent. Walls, etc. to be lime-washed. Cleansing, etc. of dairies. Storage of milk. Design and construction of vessels and utensils used for containing milk. Provisions as to prevention of infection or contamination of milk. Drinking from milk vessels prohibited. Control of spitting in dairies. Immunization of dairyman, etc. against certain disease, etc. Restriction on use of milk from diseased animal. Registered dairymen to give notice of illness in certain cases. Licensee to give notice of disease among cattle in dairy or among animals associated therewith. Register of herd to be kept. Offences and penalties. Examination of persons and animals. Medical examination, etc. of persons engaged or employed in a dairy. Power of health officer to stop supply, etc. of milk from dairy in certain cases. Power of inspector to take samples and procedure in connexion therewith. Analysis and certificate as to result thereof. Schedule. Application of certain provisions of Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance. (Cap. 132.)

G.N.A. 126/60. G.N.A. 133/60. Citation. Interpretation. (Cap. 132.) Registration of dairymen. Information required from dairyman seeking registration. Carrying and production of certificate of registration by dairyman. Prohibition of maintaining dairy without licence. Dairy to be maintained only at premises, etc. specified in licence. Power of Director to issue licence to maintain dairy, etc. Application for licence to be accompanied by plan of premises, etc. Special grounds for refusal to grant or renew licence. Prohibition of alteration, etc. of premises at which dairy is maintained. Provisions as to construction of premises at which dairy is maintained, etc. Removal of contents of catch-pit. Disposal of effluent. Walls, etc. to be lime-washed. Cleansing, etc. of dairies. Storage of milk. Design and construction of vessels and utensils used for containing milk. Provisions as to prevention of infection or contamination of milk. Drinking from milk vessels prohibited. Control of spitting in dairies. Immunization of dairyman, etc. against certain disease, etc. Restriction on use of milk from diseased animal. Registered dairymen to give notice of illness in certain cases. Licensee to give notice of disease among cattle in dairy or among animals associated therewith. Register of herd to be kept. Offences and penalties. Examination of persons and animals. Medical examination, etc. of persons engaged or employed in a dairy. Power of health officer to stop supply, etc. of milk from dairy in certain cases. Power of inspector to take samples and procedure in connexion therewith. Analysis and certificate as to result thereof. Schedule. Application of certain provisions of Public Health and Urban Services Ordinance. (Cap. 132.)

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