Agriculture (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1949

7 Miscellaneous amendments of enactments relating to milk and dairies.

(1) The Minister of Health may, with the approval, of the Treasury, repay out of moneys provided by Parliament such part, not exceeding three quarters, as he may with such approval determine, of any sums paid by a local authority (within the meaning of the Food and Drugs Act, 1938) by way of compensation to any person for damage or loss sustained by him by reason of any prohibition or restriction imposed by regulations made under section twenty of the said Act, as amended by the Food and Drugs (Milk and Dairies) Act, 1944, on the sale, supply or use of milk which is infected or suspected of being infected.

(2) Subsection (1) and paragraph (b) of subsection (2) of section four of the said Food and Drugs (Milk and Dairies) Act, 1944 (which make certain modifications, in relation to dairy farms and the registration of dairy farmers, of provisions of the Food and Drugs Act, 1938, relating to the authorities who are empowered or required to enforce and execute regulations made under that Act) shall each be amended by the insertion after the words " dairy farmer " of the words " 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", and accordingly the said provisions shall have effect as set out in Part I of the Schedule to this Act.

(3) There shall be paid out of moneys provided by Parliament to the chairman of any such tribunal as is referred to in subsection (3) of section one of the said Food and Drugs (Milk and Dairies) Act, 1944 (which provides for the constitution of a tribunal for the hearing of objections to a refusal or cancellation of registration of a dairy farm or dairy farmer) such remuneration (by way of salary or fees) and such allowances as the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries may, with the approval of the Treasury, determine.