No. 169/1947:

MILK AND DAIRIES (INFECTIOUS DISEASES) ORDER, 1947.

MILK AND DAIRIES (INFECTIOUS DISEASES) ORDER, 1947.

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.

WHEREAS the Minister for Health (hereinafter called " the Minister ") is of opinion that acute anterior poliomyelitis is a disease which is likely to be caused by infected or contaminated milk :

NOW THEREFORE the Minister in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (2) of section 40 of the Milk and Dairies Act, 1935 , with the concurrence of the Minister for Agriculture, hereby declares and orders as follows :—

1. This Order may be cited as the Milk and Dairies (Infectious Diseases) Order, 1947.

2. The disease known as acute anterior poliomyelitis shall be a disease to which Part V of the Milk and Dairies Act, 1935 , applies.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Health this twentieth day of May, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-seven.

(Signed) SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN,

Minister for Health.

The Minister for Agriculture hereby concurs with the foregoing Order.

(Signed) PATRICK SMITH,

Minister for Agriculture.