Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1949

PART I Section 4 (1) and part of Section 4 (2) of Food and Drugs (Milk and Dairies) Act, 1944

4 (1) The power of a county council or local authority under subsection (3) of section sixty-five of the principal Act to institute proceedings under any regulation made under that Act, shall not include power to institute proceedings against any person for contravening or failing to comply with the Milk and Dairies Regulations in respect of a dairy farm or in respect of the registration of persons carrying on or proposing to carry on the trade of a dairy farmer, except any such regulation as is made for the purposes of paragraph (f) or paragraph (g) of subsection (1) of section twenty of the principal Act.

(2) Section ninety-two of the principal Act (which contains supplementary provisions as to Milk and Dairies Regulations and other regulations) shall apply to Milk (Special Designation) Regulations as it applies to Milk and Dairies Regulations, but in its application to Milk (Special Designation) Regulations and Milk and Dairies Regulations, shall have effect subject to the following modifications:

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(b) subsection (3) (which requires the Regulations to specify the authorities by whom they are to be enforced and executed) shall not apply to the enforcement or execution of Milk and Dairies Regulations in respect of dairy farms or in respect of the registration of persons carrying on the trade of a dairy farmer, except any such regulation as is made for the purposes of paragraph (f) or paragraph (g) of subsection (1) of section twenty of the principal Act, or to the enforcement or execution of Milk (Special Designation) Regulations in respect of the use of a special designation of raw milk by a producer of such milk.