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The Milk and Dairies (Semi-skimmed and Skimmed Milk) (Heat Treatment and Labelling) Regulations 1988 (Note)

The Milk and Dairies (Semi-skimmed and Skimmed Milk) (Heat Treatment and Labelling) Regulations 1988

STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1988 No. 2206

FOOD

MILK AND DAIRIES

The Milk and Dairies (Semi-skimmed and Skimmed Milk) (Heat Treatment and Labelling) Regulations 1988

Made 15th December 1988

Laid before Parliament 19th December 1988

Coming into force 1st January 1989

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Wales, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 33, 74(3) and 118 of the Food Act 1984[1] and now vested in them[2] and all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation in accordance with section 118(6) of that Act with such organisations as appear to them to be representative of interests substantially affected by the Regulations, hereby make the following Regulations:--

Title and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Milk and Dairies (Semi-skimmed and Skimmed Milk) (Heat Treatment and Labelling) Regulations 1988 and shall come into force on 1st January 1989.

Interpretation

2.--(1) In these Regulations unless the context otherwise requires--

"the Act" means the Food Act 1984;

"atmospheric shade box" means a well ventilated box or cupboard so situated on the outside of a wall on the north side of a building or in a comparable position that it is at all times in the shade, such box or cupboard being not less than three feet above the ground at its lowest point and having inside it a maximum thermometer and a minimum thermometer of the meteorological type, accurate to within 0.5 C.;

"atmospheric shade temperature" means the temperature inside an atmospheric shade box;

"bulk milk" means milk which is not packed or made up in advance in the bottle or other container in which it is to be supplied to the consumer;

"consumer" means any person to whom milk is supplied and who neither sells it nor uses it in the manufacture of milk products for sale;

"local authority" has the meaning assigned to it by section 72 of the Act;

"milk" means cows' milk intended for sale or sold for human consumption, but does not include such milk intended for manufacture into products for sale for human consumption;

"milk processor" means any milk pasteuriser, milk s...

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