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Registration

of dairymen.

Information

PART II.

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 hi Dame 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 required from unless he has furnished full information to the satisfaction of the dalryman secking

Director as to his residence, the place where the milk is kept for sak, registration. the place where the milk is produced, the place where the cattle art kept, the nature of his water supply and the general suitability of his arrangements for carrying on the trade of a dairyman.

Carrying and production of certificate of registration

by dairyman.

Prohibition of

maintaining

dairy without

licenes.

Dairy to be maintained

only at

premises, etc.

specified in

licence.

Power of

Director to issue licence to maintain dairy, etc.

5.

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

6.

PART III.

Licensing and control of dairies.

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.

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(1) Upon application in the form prescribed by the Director the Director may 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 ou the 31st day of December.

(3) Save as provided in paragraph (4), a fee of---

(a) four hundred and cighty dollars; or

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(b) twelve dollars for each cow or buffalo over the age of twelve months which, in the case of a new such licence, is to be kept in the dairy on the commencement of the licence, or, in the case of the renewal of any such licence, is kept in the dairy on the 1st 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 1st day of July in any year, the fee payable in respect thereof shall be one-half of the fee prescribed 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 Application 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 main-

tain 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.

for licence

to be ac. companied by plan of

premises, cbc.

for refusal

10. (1) Without prejudice to the discretion of the Director with Special respect to the refusal of the grant or renewal of any such licence, no grounds such licence shall, save as provided in paragraph (2), be granted or to grant 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 main- taining 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

DOTLEW licence.