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after consultation with, and with the concurrence of, whichever is the appropriate council of the three research councils (paragraph 218).

(19) The Ministry of Agriculture should approve a standard for tuberculin of prescribed potency and purity, and should provide that it should be sold only to qualified veterinary surgeons (paragraph 219). (20) The police, and the sanitary officers of local authorities and all veterinary officers in public employment should be given the right of access to dealers' and knackers' premises, and the right to require information upon the source from which cattle are received and the destination to which cattle and carcases are despatched (para- graph 220).

The financial effect of the measures recommended.

(21) The burden of the new expenditure recommended should be divided between the farming community, the milk industry as a whole, and those who contribute, either as taxpayers or ratepayers, to national and local funds, on the following basis:-

(a) The farming community would be responsible for the costs incurred in eradication, with the exception of the costs of tuberculin testing and general veterinary advice. The state or the local authority, however, would, in cases of necessity, make advances to meet this expenditure, repayable over a reasonable period.

(b) The milk industry as a whole would be responsible for finding the sum required to pay the bonus on milk produced in accepted herds.

(c) The costs of the increased veterinary services and laboratory work and of free tuberculin testing would be met from national or local funds. Loans to farmers for the purpose of eradication would either be made from the same source, or under the guarantee of the state or local authority (paragraphs 221–224).

(22) The state should not continue to bear the cost of com- pensating the owners of tuberculous animals slaughtered under the tuberculosis order. The end of compensation should coincide with the grant by the government of substantial help in the eradication of tuberculosis. In view, however, of the present crisis in the dairying industry, it may not be practicable to take this step immediately (paragraph 225).

(23) To assist the expansion of the veterinary service, the Exchequer should make a contribution to local authorities apportioned among the various counties in such a way that those on which the burden would be most severe would benefit the most (paragraph 226). (24) Local authorities should be entitled to recover either the

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