The Food (Northern Ireland) Order 1989

Regulations as to milk

27.—(1) The Department may, to prevent danger to health from the supply or sale of infected milk, make such regulations as appear to the Department to be expedient—

(a) for requiring the treatment before it is supplied or sold of milk which is infected or suspected of being infected;

(b) for prohibiting the supply or sale of milk which is infected or suspected of being infected;

(c) for prohibiting the use of milk which is infected or suspected of being infected in the manufacture of products for sale for human consumption;

(d) for authorising the payment by district councils of compensation to any person for damage or loss sustained by him by reason of any prohibition or restriction imposed by regulations made under this Article on the supply, sale or use of milk which is infected or suspected of being infected.

(2) The Department may, where no express provision is made by this Order, make regulations for prohibiting or restricting—

(a) the addition of any substance to milk, or the abstraction from milk of fat or any other constituent;

(b) the supply or sale of milk to which any such addition, or from which any such abstraction, has been made, or which has been otherwise artificially treated.

(3) Regulations made under paragraph (2) shall not apply in relation to cream in so far as they are made for any purpose for which regulations relating to cream may be made under Article 6.

(4) The Department may, with the approval of the Department ofFinance and Personnel, repay out of moneys appropriated by Meas-ure such part, not exceeding three-quarters, as the Departmentmay with such approval determine of any sums paid by a district council by way of compensation to any person for any damage or loss sustained by him by reason of any prohibition or restriction imposed by regulations made under paragraph (1) on the sale, supply or use of milk which is infected or suspected of being infected.

(5) In this Article “milk” means milk intended for supply or sale or supplied or sold for human consumption, or intended for manufacture into products for sale for human consumption.