SALE OF MILK FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume XXXII, Issue 1, 20 January 1926, Page 72

SALE OF MILK FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.

Regulation No. 21 of the regulations under the Dairy Industry Act, 1908, made on 24th December, 1900, has been revoked, and the following amending regulation substituted— effect from publication in the Gazette of 7th January : — 21. (a.) No person or company shall sell or offer for sale for human consumption any milk or cream other than that obtained from, a registered dairy, but this provision shall not apply to any milk or cream sold or offered for sale for the manufacture of condensed milk, dried milk, butter, or cheese, or sold or offered for sale in the form of condensed milk, dried milk, butter, or cheese. (&.) In any proceeding for breach of this regulation the onus of proof that such, milk or cream was not milk or cream other than that obtained from a registered dairy shall be upon the person or company charged. ■ (c.) In any proceeding for breach of this regulation,, if it be proved that any person or company carrying on the trade of purveyor of milk has during any period sold for human consumption milk or cream in excess of the quantities thereof proved to be obtained during that period by such person or company from registered dairies or in the possession of such person or company at the commencement of the period, such proof shall be primd facie evidence of a breach by such person or company of the provisions of this regulation, notwithstanding that no evidence may be tendered of any specific sale of milk or cream other than that obtained from a registered dairy.