CAP. 140]

[by-law 23, cont.]

G.N.A. 125/48.

Public Health (Food).

the manner and place of disposal of the carcase shall be entered in red ink in the appropriate columns and the dairy-man shall, if required, produce documentary evidence verifying such particulars. All entries shall be in the English language. All entries shall be complete and accurate.

(2) Every register shall be available for inspection on demand by any health officer or health inspector.

(3) The loss of any register shall be reported without delay to the Secretary, Urban Council, or to a health officer or health inspector.

24. Whenever a health officer is of opinion or has reason to suspect that any person in the Colony is suffering from an infectious disease attributable to milk supplied from any dairy or milk shop situated within the Colony, or that the consumption of milk from any dairy is likely to cause infectious disease to any person, he shall have power to inspect such dairy or milk shop and medically to examine any person residing or employed therein and may call upon a senior veterinary officer to inspect and examine the animals therein, and the carcases of any animals that may have died therein.

25. (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 the health officer aforementioned.

(2) If after medical examination, it is the opinion of a health officer that employment in a dairy has caused, or is likely to cause, spread of communicable disease to man or animal, the person so medically examined shall be notified in writing by the Secretary and he shall forthwith cease to engage in the business of, or to be employed in, any dairy until he obtains a medical certificate that he is no longer likely to cause spread of communicable disease to man or animal.

(3) It shall not be lawful for any dairyman to employ any person who, in accordance with paragraph (2), is deemed to have caused, or is likely to cause, spread of communicable disease to man or animal.

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