The sanitary inspector's handbook / by Albert Taylor.

  • Taylor, Albert
Date:
1905
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Credit: The sanitary inspector's handbook / by Albert Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Kingdom, the Board may, by order, empower one of their officers to execute and enforce those provisions, or to procure the execution and enforcement thereof, in relation to any article of food mentioned in the order. The expenses incurred by the Board or their officer under any such order are to be treated as expenses incurred by the local authority in the execution of the said Acts, and are to be paid by the local authority to the Board on demand, or in default the Board may recover the amount of the expenses with costs from the local authority [Section 3 (3)]. The Board would be glad if you would take steps to bring under the notice of your local authority the foregoing summary of sections 2 and 3 of the new Act, and they will be glad to furnish copies of this circular for distribution amongst the members of your local authority and the officers concerned, upon being informed of the number you require. The Board will, in a subsequent letter, explain their views as to the lines upon which they would propose to exercise the very important powers and duties conferred and imposed upon them by the sections in question. I am. Sir, Your obedient servant, T. H. Elliott, Secretary. Whitehall, November, iSgg. Sir, I am directed by the Board of Agriculture to draw your attention to certain provisions contained in Sections 5, 6, 7, and 8, of the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, 1899 (62 and 63 Vict. ch. 51), which extends and amends the provisions of the Margarine Act, 18S7 (50 and 51 Vict. ch. 29), and which will come into operation on the ist January, igoo. By Section 5 of the new Act, the provisions of the Margarine Act, 1887, as amended by the new Act, are extended to margarine-cheese, which expression is defined by Section 25 of the Act as meaning any substance, whether compound or otherwise, which is prepared in imita- tion of cheese, and which contains fat not derived from milk. The effect of Section 5 is that no such substance can be lawfully dealt in, exposed for sale, or sold, except under the name of margarine-cheese, and under the conditions set forth in Section 6 of the Margarine Act, J887, with respect to margarine, mutatis mutandis; and the Section DD 2
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