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Examination

of persons and animals.

Medical examination,

alc. of

persons

engaged or employed

in a dairy,

Power of bealth officer Lo stop supply, clc, of milk from dairy

in certain

Са

Power of inspector to lake samples and procedure

In connexion

therewith,

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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 consumption 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 carcases of any animals which may have died therein.

29. (1) A health officer may order any person engaged a employed in any capacity in any dairy to submit himself for suc 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 i 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 be 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) 16 any health officer is of opinion that—

(a) any disease is caused, or is likely to be caused, by the con

sumption of the milk supplied from any dairy; or

(6) the public health is, or is likely to be, endangered by any 20

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 mit therefrom-

(i) absolutely; or

(U) 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 othe examination, take samples of any milk while the same is at the dain at which the animals from which it was obtained are kept.

(2) In connexion with the taking under the provisions of para graph (1) of a sample of any milk, the inspector may take such step

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at the dairy as may be necessary to satisfy himself that the sample 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, cach 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 bim 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 Analysis any sample submitted to him in pursuance of regulation 31 and shall and ceni- give to the inspector by whom the same was submitted to him for result

ficate as to analysis a certificate, in the appropriate form set out in the Schedule, thereof. 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.

Schedule,

provisions of

33. In and in connexion with any proceedings under these regula- Application tions in which any sample taken under the provisions of paragraph (1) of certain of regulation 31 is relevant, the provisions of subsections (1) and (2) Public Health of section 65, and of subsection (1) of section 66, of the Public Health and Urban and Urban Services Ordinance, 1960, shall apply, mutantis mutandis, as Ordinance. they apply to proceedings under Part V of that Ordinance.

Services

1960,

(30 of 1960).