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Dairy.--By the (English) Public Health Acts Amendment Act, 1907, s. 13--

The expression 'dairy' includes any farm, farmhouse, cowshed, milk store, milk shop, or other place from which milk is supplied or in which milk is kept for the purposes of sale within (unless otherwise expressed) the district of the local authority:

By the same Act dairymen must furnish (s. 53) a list of their sources of supply, and notify (s. 54) when any infectious disease exists among their servants.

As to the power of the Ministers of Health and Agriculture and Fisheries to make orders for the registration of dairymen and regulations for carrying on their trade, see the (English) Milk and Dairies (Consolidation) Act, 1915, and the (English) Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922, as amended by the (English) Milk Act, 1934, amending and consolidating the general law on the subject of dairies and the milk trade. See also (English) Sale of Goods (Weights and Measures) Act, 1926 (16 & 17 Geo. 5, c. 63) and the (English) Milk Act, 1934 (24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 51), as extended by 26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 9, providing for exchequer payments in aid of a minimum price to producers, and Milk Marketing Boards under the (English) Agricultural Marketing Act, 1931, for improvements in the quality and advertisement of Milk; and see CREAM.

In which milk is kept for purposes of sale or is manufactured for sale into butter, ghee, cheese or curds, and, in relation to a dairyman who does not occupy any premises for the sale of milk, includes any place in which he keeps the vessels used by him for the storage or sale of milk. [Cantonments Act, 1924 (2 of 1924), s. 2 (x)]