STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1927, No. 1010. ROAD VEHICLES. THE ROAD VEHICLES (SHOWMEN'S TRACTORS AND HEAVY LOCOMOTIVES) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS, 1927, DATED OCTOBER 18, 1927, MADE BY THE MINISTER OF TRANSPORT. To the County Councils of the several administrative To the Councils of the several County Boroughs in England To all others whom it may concern. Whereas by the Road Vehicles (Showmen's Tractors and Heavy Locomotives) Regulations, 1927, (a) the Minister of Transport made Regulations (hereinafter called the Principal Regulations) with which any person claiming by virtue of Sub-paragraph (4) of paragraph 4 of the First Schedule to the Finance Act, 1926, (b) any repayment of duty paid in respect of a licence for a vehicle must comply as one of the conditions of becoming entitled to such repayment. And whereas it is expedient that the Principal Regulations should be amended as hereinafter appears. Now therefore, the Minister of Transport in further exercise of the powers given to him by the Finance Act, 1926, and of any and every other power him hereunto enabling hereby without prejudice to any further exercise of the said powers makes the following regulations, that is to say : 1. These Regulations may be cited as "The Road Vehicles (Showmen's Tractors and Heavy Locomotives) Amendment Regulations, 1927 ". 2. The Principal Regulations shall have effect as though in paragraph (i) of Article C of Regulation 2 thereof the expression January 1st, 1929 " were substituted for the expression "January 1st, 1928 ". Given under the seal of the Minister of Transport this (L.S.) 3699 F.G.T. H. H. Piggott, Assistant Secretary. (a) 8.R. & O. 1927, No. 6. (b) 16-7 G. 5. c. 22. SIR, CONDENSED AND DRIED MILKS. 1. I am directed by the Minister of Health to forward, for the information of the Local Authority, the accompanying copies of the Public Health (Condensed Milk) Amendment Regulations, 1927, and the Public Health (Dried Milk) Amendment Regulations, 1927, which amend the Public Health (Condensed Milk) Regulations, 1923, and the Public Health (Dried Milk) Regulations, 1923, respectively. The Amendment Regulations are primarily designed to secure that in the labelling of condensed and dried skimmed milks greater prominence shall be given to the words "Unfit for Babies,' and that those words shall also be printed on the outside of any paper or other wrapper in which tins of such milks may be enclosed, 2. It will be observed that the Amendment Regulations will allow the size of type for the descriptive part (e.g., "Dried Full Cream Milk") of the prescribed declaration for all varieties of condensed and dried milks to be reduced but, except in the case of the skimmed milks, there is nothing to require any modification of the labels at present in use. 3. In order to give time for the disposal of existing stocks the operation of the Amendment Regulations has been deferred until the 1st September, 1928 (except in so far as importations of condensed milk are concerned). It will, however, be noted that labels printed in accordance with the revised rules may forthwith be used notwithstanding that compliance with those rules is not yet compulsory. 4. In pursuance of the power reserved to the Minister under Rule 1 (1) of the First Schedule to the Public Health (Condensed Milk) Regulations, 1923, and Rule 1 (1) of the Schedule to the Public Health (Dried Milk) Regulations, 1923, he has at various dates allowed the following variations in the declarations prescribed by those Regulations, namely: (1) In the case of any variety of condensed milk, the order of the 66 66 (2) In the case of any variety of dried milk the word “ package,” "packet," or "receptacle" may be substituted for the word "tin" in the statement of equivalence. (3) In the case of the proprietary preparation known as "Virol and Milk" the words "Dried Full Cream Milk and Virol" may be substituted for the words "Dried Full Cream Milk Compounded." 5. Copies of this Circular and of the Amendment Regulations have been sent to the Medical Officer of Health and the Public Analyst. STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, PUBLIC HEALTH, ENGLAND. THE PUBLIC HEALTH (CONDENSED MILK) AMENDMENT REGULATIONS, 1927, DATED NOVEMBER 14, 1927, MADE BY THE MINISTER OF HEALTH. 72096. The Minister of Health in the exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the Public Health Act, 1875, (a) the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, (b) the Public Health Act, 1896, (c) the Public Health (Regulations as to Food) Act, 1907, (d) and by Section 8 of the Milk and Dairies (Amendment) Act, 1922, (e) and of every other power enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations, with the consent of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, so far as they apply to the Officers of Customs and Excise, that is to say : 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Public Health (Condensed Milk) Amendment Regulations, 1927, and these Regulations and the Public Health (Condensed Milk) Regulations, 1923 (f) (hereinafter called "the principal Regulations "') shall be construed together and may be cited together as the Public Health (Condensed Milk) Regulations, 1923 and 1927. 2. These Regulations shall come into operation on the 1st day of May, 1928, so far as they amend Part III of the principal Regulations (relating to importation) and in other respects on the 1st day of September, 1928: Provided that the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 3 of the First Schedule to the principal Regulations shall not at any time after the date of these Regulations apply to a tin or other receptacle of condensed milk which is labelled in the manner prescribed in that Schedule as amended by these Regulations. 3. The following provision shall be added to and form part of the principal Regulations immediately after Article 4 thereof, that is to say, "4a. Where a tin or other receptacle containing condensed skimmed milk is required by Article 4 of these Regulations to be labelled, no person shall expose or offer (a) 38-9 V. c. 55. (b) 54-5 V. c. 76. (c) 59-60 V. c. 20. (d) 7 E. 7. c. 32. (e) 12-3 G. 5. c. 54. (f) S.R. & O. 1923 (No. 509) p. 894. for sale such a tin or receptacle in a paper or other wrapper unless such wrapper has printed on the outside thereof the words unfit for babies,' such words being contained within a surrounding line. The type used for the words shall be not less than a quarter of an inch in height and the printing shall otherwise conform with the rules prescribed for the printing of the same matter on the label affixed to the tin or other receptacle." 4. The following paragraphs shall be substituted for paragraphs 1 and 3 of the First Schedule to the principal Regulations: : "1. Every tin or other receptacle containing condensed milk shall bear a label upon which is printed such one of the following declarations as may be applicable or such other declaration substantially to the like effect as may be allowed by the Minister: (i) In the case of full cream milk (unsweetened): : CONDENSED FULL CREAM MILK, UNSWEETENED. (ii) In the case of full cream milk (sweetened): CONDENSED FULL CREAM MILK, SWEETENED. THIS TIN CONTAINS THE EQUIVALENT OF (iii) In the case of skimmed milk (unsweetened): CONDENSED MACHINE-SKIMMED MILK (or CONDENSED UNFIT FOR BABIES. THIS TIN CONTAINS THE EQUIVALENT OF (a) PINTS OF SKIMMED MILK. (iv) In the case of skimmed milk (sweetened) : — CONDENSED MACHINE-SKIMMED MILK (or CONDENSED UNFIT FOR BABIES. THIS TIN CONTAINS THE EQUIVALENT OF (a) PINTS OF SKIMMED MILK, WITH SUGAR ADDED. "3.—(a) The prescribed declaration shall be printed in dark block type upon a light coloured ground. (b) There shall be a surrounding line enclosing the declaration and in the cases in which the words 'unfit for babies' are required to be used there shall be another such line enclosing those words. (c) The distance between any part of the words 'unfit for babies' and the surrounding line enclosing those words shall be not less than one-sixteenth of an inch. |