§ Order of the Day for the House to be put into Committee, read.
§ Moved, That the House do now resolve itself into Conunittee.—(Lord Ashby St. Ledgers.)
§ On Question, Motion agreed to.
§ House in Committee accordingly.
§ [The EARL OF DONOUGHMORE in the Chair.]
§ Clause 1:
§ Restriction on the Use of the Term "Creamery" in relation to Irish Butter.
§ 1—(1) From and after the first day of January nineteen hundred and thirteen the term "creamery" if applied to Irish butter shall be taken to be a trade description signifying that the butter has been manufactured in a creamery registered under this Act awl has not subsequently been blended or re-worked, and if applied to any Irish butter which—
- (a) has not been manufactured in a creamery registered under this Act; or
- (b) having been so manufactured, has subsequently been blended or re-worked;
§ (2) For the purposes of this section the term "creamery" shall be deemed to be applied if applied within the meaning of the Merchandise Marks Act, 1887, and the expression "Irish Butter" shall be deemed to include in Ireland any butter sold or offered, exposed or consigned for sale otherwise than as British, colonial or foreign butter.
LORD PLUNKETI move to omit the proviso at the end of subsection (1). Some of your Lordships will recall that on the Second Reading of this Bill, speaking on behalf of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society, which is representative of over half the creameries in Ireland, I stated that we approved the Bill as a whole but that we would have serious Amendments to move when it reached the Committee stage, and that we thought the Bill should not leave your Lordships' House without those Amendments being agreed to. Since then an important concession has been made by the Irish Department. The Agricultural Organisation Society has con- 619 stantly urged the formation by the Irish Department of Agriculture of an advisory committee on dairying, adequately representative of the butter industry in Ireland, to which all matters affecting this industry should be referred for consideration and recommendation. The Vice-President of the Irish Department of Agriculture has now agreed to give effect to that proposal and to constitute such a committee in time to deal with this Bill before it reaches the Committee stage in another place. I shall not enlarge upon the enormous general advantage to the industry of such a committee, but will only say that we are prepared, in consequence of this promise, to join with the Government in asking your Lordships to accept this Bill with the Amendments to be proposed to-day, with the one exception of the proviso at the end of subsection (1) of Clause 1, which, at the urgent request of every creamery we have heard from, we ask your Lordships to delete.
This proviso was not in the original draft of the Bill. It is not a proposal of the Irish Department of Agriculture, but was inserted, we understand, at the request of the Board of Trade and the English Board of Agriculture. The clause as it stood and as we desire it to remain contains the essence of the Bill—that in future the term "creamery" when used in connection with Irish butter would be an absolute guarantee that such butter had been prepared under very stringent and exacting Government conditions. But this proviso so weakens this clear and simple definition that much of the value of the Bill, under which creameries are called upon to make very great sacrifices, disappears, for it would practically encourage a form of fraud on English consumers easy to carry out but very difficult to expose and punish. For it actually proposes that in Great Britain the term "creamery" applied to Irish butter need not necessarily signify the butter is really creamery butter unless described directly or indirectly as having been made in Ireland. You therefore confer upon the Irish butter industry a benefit with one hand and take it away with the other. You give a clear definition of what creamery butter really should mean (to the enormous advantage of the producer and consumer), and then you confuse and weaken that definition; and in this connection it must be remembered that the detection and successful prosecution of frauds upon the public in the sale of butter 620 is hard enough to carry out already. We understand that the reason advanced by the Board of Trade and the English Board of Agriculture for inserting this proviso is that they fear that without it there might be established a sort of trade mark for Ireland in the term "creamery." It is quite true that the custom of the trade in the United Kingdom, as evidenced by their principal organ, the Grocer, is to regard the term "creamery" as practically a special designation for Irish creamery butter. Everyone knows that butter from Denmark, Sweden, etc., is made in creameries, but it is unusual for it to be so described. But we do not and could not object to their using the definition, nor do we think the clause without the proviso could be twisted to prevent them. What we say is that this clause with the proviso is obscure and unnecessary, and that it is calculated to expose Irish creameries to the danger of competition in the British market with firms who will purchase other than creamery butter and sell it as So-and-so's Creamery Butter, gaining the higher price which this new Parliamentary definition of creamery will give them and escaping scot free in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred.
If the Board of Trade still remain uneasy, they should suggest some alternative proviso which the advisory committee on dairying, to which I referred at the beginning of my remarks, could consider. There are a number of minor points in this Bill which might have been discussed in your Lordships' House to-day, but we feel that with the assistance we have already been given by the Government and with this advisory committee to which I have referred, the Bill when it reaches this House again will be practically perfect. But if this particular proviso in subsection (1) of Clause 1 remains in we cannot possibly accept the Bill, and we trust that the Government will withdraw the proviso.
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Amendment moved—
Clause 1, page 1, lines 19 to 23, leave out ("Provided that in Great Britain the term 'Creamery' if applied to Irish butter shall not by reason of the foregoing provision be taken to be a false trade description unless there is also applied to the butter a description stating or indicating that the butter was made or manufactured in Ireland").—(Lord Plunket.)
§ LORD ASHBY ST. LEDGERSThe proviso which is the subject of this discussion was not inserted in the first instance at the desire of the Irish Department of Agriculture, but it has been regarded as 621 important by the Board of Trade and by the Board of Agriculture in England and we look upon it as an integral part of the Bill; and if your Lordships see fit to follow the noble Lord's suggestion and delete the proviso now, the Government will feel bound to reinsert it in another place. I think the fairness of the proviso and its necessity will strike any impartial observer. The fact is that without it a. British merchant selling creamery butter in this country which happened to come from Ireland—it might conic from Ireland without his knowledge—would be liable to the penalties which the Bill establishes. What we say is that if he sells it as "Irish creamery butter" and it is not manufactured in a registered creamery, then it should come within the penalties of the Statute. I think it is desirable in the interests of salesmen that this proviso should remain in the Bill. What we have to consider from an Irish point of view is whether it does, in effect, destroy the value and utility of the Bill, as the noble Lord seemed to think. I cannot conceive its doing so unless you suppose that a certain creamery in Ireland, wishing to escape the provisions as to inspection, maintenance of plant, and so forth, were to determine to sacrifice the whole of their Irish trade in butter and merely make butter for the English market. It is quite true that if the person running that creamery did not apply and did not get registered he could sell creamery butter in the English market as creamery butter, but in order to do that he would have to sacrifice the whole of his Irish business, because in Ireland at any rate you cannot sell any butter as creamery butter unless it is made at a registered creamery. I do not see that the effect of the Bill is at all weakened by this proviso. The noble Lord seemed to think that it would encourage a form of fraud. I would remind him that one of the advantages of this Bill is that it does give a statutory definition to creamery butter, and that it was the want of such a definition which prevented prosecutions in the past. There will be no difficulty under this Bill in obtaining convictions where other butter is palmed off on the public as Irish creamery butter. We have made concessions in regard to this Bill on almost every point except this one. The Bill is practically an agreed Bill with the exception of this single remaining point. As I have stated, the moment you look at this proviso you must see its fairness; and 622 seeing that it really cannot injure the Bill and cannot detract from its utility and its stringency I hope the noble Lord will not persist in his Amendment.
THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURYI do not think the noble Lord who has just sat down has succeeded in getting rid of the difficulty that is in the minds of the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society with regard to this proviso. It is perfectly obvious that under this proviso any British trading firm could buy butter in Ireland and sell it as Mr. So-and-so's creamery butter.
§ LORD ASHBY ST. LEDGERSNot if there is any indication that it comes from Ireland. If the name of a well-known butter manufacturer in Ireland were used, that would be an indirect statement that it was Irish creamery butter.
THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURYIt is obvious that the butter could be sold as creamery butter and the public would be led to think it was Irish creamery butter whereas it had not been made in a registered creamery in Ireland. Therefore the advantage given by the Bill is taken away by this proviso. The noble Lord said the British tradesman might be under this disadvantage, that he might be selling what lie thought was English butter but it might turn out to be Irish butter and he would then come under the penalties of the Bill; but I think the noble Lord, inasmuch as this advisory committee is to be appointed to which a matter of this sort could easily be referred, might agree to this proviso being deleted at the present stage until the advisory committee have had an opportunity of discussing it. Perhaps we should then be able to find a way out of this impasse which would protect British salesmen in the matter.
§ LORD ASHBY ST. LEDGERSI do not understand that this is to be an advisory committee on the Bill. It is an advisory committee on the Irish dairy industry as a whole. I repeat that I do not believe that this proviso does any real injury to the Irish butter trade. If you look at the Grocer—which is The Times of the trade—you will find that Irish creamery butter is always described as "Irish creamery butter." I have never seen it described as creamery butter only. All that needs to be done is to describe it as Irish creamery butter, and then it is clear that anybody who sells as Irish creamery butter butter not made in a registered Irish creamery does come under the Bill.
§ THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNEThe House is placed in some difficulty with regard to this Amendmen, for I do not think that until we came here this evening most of us realised the great importance which is attached to it. I have great sympathy with the view of the case so effectually put before the House by the noble Lord who moved the Amendment. This is a very drastic and stringent Bill, and imposes on Irish creameries a considerable number of severe restrictions. In return for that they get a kind of trade mark which gives their goods no small advantage in the market. They point out—I think with some force—that if this proviso remains in the Bill the door will be opened for fraud, and that they will be deprived of the protection afforded to them by what I called a moment ago the trade mark which this Bill provides them with. As I understand the proviso, it will be open to a dealer to sell as creamery butter butter which was made in Ireland, though not, perhaps, at a creamery, unless there is something on the package to suggest distinctly that the butter is Irish creamery butter. That does seem to me to open the door for a considerable amount of abuse. But I should be very sorry to suggest to your Lordships that you should take to-night a decided view for or against this Amendment. What I should like to suggest, particularly as the Bill appears to be, except for this one point of difference, an agreed Bill, is that this one point might be held over for another stage, and that we might in the meantime endeavour to ascertain a little more clearly than we can at present the precise position of the matter.
LORD PLUNKETThis is a very complex matter and one which it is rather difficult to decide. We have not the least objection to the Board of Trade safeguarding what they consider to be the interests of English traders, but as this proviso stands there really is no protection against some firm with an Irish name buying up what is not creamery butter in Ireland and calling it "Murphy's creamery butter."
§ LORD ASHBY ST. LEDGERSThat is not so. He would come within the Merchandise Marks Act. No butter but creamery butter can be sold in England as creamery butter.
LORD PLUNKETThat point is difficult to prove. I am quite prepared to accept the noble Marquess's suggestion that 624 this matter should be postponed to a later stage of the Bill, so that it may be further considered.
THE LORD PRIVY SEAL AND SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (THE MARQUESS OF CREWE)I quite agree that it would be rather an extreme course to do anything to endanger the Bill as a whole on this comparatively small point, and, speaking generally, the postponement of its consideration till another stage would seem to be a natural and obvious course. I am not quite certain, however, what would be meant at this particular time of the year by postponing the consideration of this point to another stage. Do noble Lords opposite think that it would be possible to settle this point before we adjourn at the end of this month, or does the postponement mean that it would have to be postponed until we meet again in the course of the autumn?
LORD PLUNKETI should be able to ascertain within a few days whether it would be possible to come to an agreement on the point.
THE MARQUESS OF CREWEIf that is so I hope the noble Lord will take the steps he has indicated in order to find out whether it is possible to meet the objections which my noble friend has taken on behalf of a considerable body of English public opinion. If I might say a word on the merits, it seems to me rather as though the Irish creamery industry were asking for a little too much, in the sense that they are practically asking that the term "creamery butter" should mean Irish creamery butter. I should have thought that, from the point of view of the deception of the public, there would be greater risk if butter was described as Irish butter, possibly with an Irish name attached to it, in which case the public might be led to assume that it was creamery butter when it was not. But, as my noble friend has pointed out, to describe as creamery butter that which was not made in a creamery either in Ireland or elsewhere would, I understand, be an offence against the law. Therefore I should have hoped that Irish creameries were sufficiently protected by the insertion of this proviso.
§ Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.
§ Clause I agreed to.
§ Clauses 2 and 3 agreed to.
625§ Clause 4:
§ Conditions of Registration.
§ 4.—(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the Department shall not register any premises as a creamery or cream-separating station under this Act unless they are satisfied that the premises are capable of registration as such and that the following conditions with respect to the premises, plant, and machinery (in this Act referred to as "conditions of registration") are complied with, that is to say:—
- (a) The premises and plant must be kept in a state of cleanliness and repair suitable to the requirements of the business:
- (b) The premises must not be situated in such a position or used in such a manner as to expose the butter, cream, or milk dealt with therein to contamination or ellluvia from any drain, cesspool, manure heap, cow-house, pigstye, or other similar source:
- (c) The premises must be provided with an adequate supply of pure water:
- (d) The premises must be equipped with efficient plant and machinery of the description specified in the schedule to this Act, or (at the option of the person carrying on the business) with such other plant or machinery as the Department may approve.
§ (2) Where an application to register any premises as a creamery or cream-separating station is made on or before the first day of January nineteen hundred and thirteen, if it is shown to the satisfaction of the Department that a creamery or cream separating business, as the case may be, was carried on upon the premises on the thirtieth day of June nineteen hundred and ten, then compliance with the foregoing conditions of registration shall, for the purposes of the application, be dispensed with, and if the premises are registered in pursuance of the application, the conditions of registration shall not apply with respect to the premises, plant or machinery until the first day of January nineteen hundred and sixteen.
§ LORD ASHBY ST. LEDGERSMy first Amendment is its paragraph (a) of subsection (1), and it is designed to meet the point raised by the Agricultural Organisation Society. It is to add the words "machinery and utensils" to premises and plant which have to be kept in a proper state of cleanliness.
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Amendment moved—
Clause 4, page 3, line 8, omit ("and") and after ("plant") insert ("machinery and utensils").—(Lord Ashby St. Ledgers.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ LORD ASHBY ST. LEDGERSThe other Amendments standing in my name to Clause 4 are designed to meet points raised by the noble Marquess the Leader of the Opposition on the Second Reading. The noble Marquess will remember that he suggested that as far as equipment was concerned greater latitude should be given than that provided in the Bill. I therefore 626 propose to substitute "nineteen hundred and eleven" for "nineteen hundred and ten" in the middle of subsection (2). That gives further time for existing creameries as regards the premises.
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Amendment moved—
Clause 4, page 3, line 28, leave out ("ten") and insert ("eleven").—(Lord Ashby St. Ledgers.)
§ THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNEI am much obliged to the noble Lord. I think the Amendment is an improvement.
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ LORD ASHBY ST. LEDGERSThe noble Marquess made a further point in the debate on the Second Reading. He said it was not necessary to give so much latitude with regard to general cleanliness as with regard to the equipment of the business. This Amendment, which is in the next line in the subsection to the Amendment to which your Lordships have just agreed, carries out that suggestion.
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Amendment moved—
Clause 4, page 3, line 20, leave out ("conditions of registration") and insert ("condition as to the equipment of the premises").—(Lord Ashby St. Ledgers.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ LORD ASHBY ST. LEDGERSThe next two Amendments are consequential.
§
Amendments moved—
Clause 4, page 3, lines 31 and 32, leave out ("the conditions of registration") and insert ("that condition")
Clause 4, page 3, line 33, leave out ("plant or machinery").—(Lord Ashby St. Ledgers.)
§ On Question, Amendments agreed to.
§ Clause 4, as amended, agreed to.
§ Clause 5:
§ Regulations applicable to Registered Creameries.
§ 5.—(1) The following regulations shall be observed in carrying on a creamery business in a creamery registered under this Act:—
- (a) Butter shall not be manufactured in the creamery except front cream which has been separated in the creamery from milk by means of centrifugal force applied by mechanical power, or has been supplied from a registered cream-separating station, or some other registered creamery:
- (b)Every package or wrapper containing or enclosing butter sold or offered or consigned for sale in or from the creamery shall be marked in the prescribed manner with the mark or number assigned to the creamery by the Department; and
- (i) if the butter was manufactured in the creamery, or in some other registered creamery, with the words "Irish Creamery Butter," and
- (ii) if the butter was not so manufactured, with words indicating distinctly that the butter is not creamery butter or, in the case of British, colonial, or foreign butter, that the butter is not of Irish manufacture.
§ (2) If in the case of any registered creamery there is a contravention of any of the foregoing regulations, the person by whom the business is carried on shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.
§ LORD ASHBY ST. LEDGERSI move to add a further subsection providing that, if the Department think fit, the butter itself as well as the wrapper should be stamped in the prescribed way. This is to prevent any possibility of fraud.
§ Amendment moved—
§
Clause 5, page 4, line 13, after ("manufacture") insert:
(c) Any butter sold or offered or consigned for sale in or from the creamery shall if the department so prescribe be marked in the prescribed manner with the make or number and the words with which the package or wrapper containing or enclosing the butter is required to be marked under this section."—(Lord Ashby St. Ledgers.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 5, as amended, agreed to.
§ Clause 6 agreed to.
§ Clause 7:
§ Application for Registration.
§ 7. An application for registration under this Act shall be in such form and contain such particulars as may be prescribed, and any person authorised in that behalf by the Department may enter upon any premises to which the application relates and make such inquiries and investigations as may be requisite for the purpose of enabling the Department to deal with the application.
§ LORD ASHBY ST. LEDGERSMy Amendment here, which comes in after "may" in the middle of the clause, is to provide that the inspection shall take place "at all reasonable times."
§
Amendment moved—
Clause 7, page 4, line 31, after ("may") insert ("at all reasonable times").—(Lord Ashby St. Ledgers.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 7, as amended, agreed to.
628§ Clause 8:
§ Removal from Register.
§ 8.—(1) The Department may remove from any register kept by them under this Act any premises entered therein—
- (a) if the premises have been erroneously or fraudulently entered in the register;
- (b) if the premises, owing to a change in the character of the business, or otherwise, have ceased to be capable of registration;
- (c) if at any time the conditions of registration applicable to the premises or the machinery or plant therein are not complied with; or
- (d) if there is a contravention of any of the regulations of this Act applicable to the business carried on upon the premises.
§ (2) The Department may, if they think fit, restore to the register any premises removed therefrom under this section on such terms and conditions as they think proper.
§ LORD ASHBY ST. LEDGERSThe Amendment standing in my name to this clause is to meet objections raised by the Agricultural Organisation Society. The new subsection which I propose to add provides that when the Department has determined to remove any premises from the register notice of such intention should be given and that the notice should extend long enough to allow the appeal which can be made to the County Court to have expired.
§ Amendment moved—
§ Clause 8, page 4, line 35, at beginning insert ("Subject to the provisions of this section")
§
Clause 8, page 5, line 6, after ("premises") insert:
(2) When the Department determine to remove any premises from the register they shall give notice of their determination in the prescribed manner to the person whose name appears on the register as the person carrying on the business upon the premises, and shall not give effect to the determination before the expiration of the time fixed in pursuance of this Act for the making of an application to the County Court in respect of such determination, or if an application is made to the County Court within that period, while the application is pending."—(Lord Ashby St. Ledgers.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 8, as amended, agreed to.
§ Clause 9:
§ Proceedings on refusal of the Department to Register Premises and on Removal front the Register.
§ 9.—(1) Any person aggrieved by a refusal of the Department to register premises under this Act or by the removal of any premises from the register may, within the time fixed by rules of Court under this section, apply to the County Court having jurisdiction in the place where the premises or any of them are situated.
§ (2) On an application under this section, the Court shall have power to direct that the premises 629 or any of them shall be registered or restored to the register, as the case may be, and to make such order or orders as the justice of the case requires.
§ (3) Subject to rules of Court, an appeal shall lie from any order of the County Court under this section as in the case of an ordinary civil bill, and the provisions of the County Court (Ireland) Acts, 1851 to l889, relative to appeals, shall apply accordingly.
§ (4) Rules of Court may regulate the practice and procedure in the County Court and on appeals under this section including costs.
§ LORD ASHBY ST. LEDGERSThe first Amendment is in subsection (1) and is consequential on the foregoing Amendments.
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Amendment moved—
Clause 9, page 5, line 11, leave out ("removal of") and insert ("determination of the Department to remove").—(Lord Ashby St. Ledgers.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ LORD ASHBY ST. LEDGERSThe next Amendment, in subsection (2), is also consequential.
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Amendment moved—
Clause 9, page 5, line 18, leave out ("restored to the register") and insert ("that the determination of the Department to remove the premises from the register shall he reversed").—(Lord Ashby St. Ledgers.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 9, as amended, agreed to.
§ Clause 10 agreed to.
§ LORD ASHBY ST. LEDGERSI wish here to insert a new clause to prevent margarine premises from selling creamery butter at all. It is thought that if this were allowed it would be exceedingly difficult to detect fraud, and therefore it is proposed that they should be prohibited from selling creamery butter.
§
Amendment moved—
After Clause 10 insert the following new clause:
§ "Prohibition of Use of the Term 'Creamery' in connection with Butter Sold or Consigned in or from Butter Factories.
§ ".If any butter is sold or offered or consigned for sale as creamery butter in or from any premises in Ireland which are or are required to be registered under the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts, l875 to 1907, the occupier of the premises shall be guilty of an offence under this Act."—(Lord Ashby St. Ledgers.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
630§ Clause 11:
§ Unclean Milk
§ 11. Any person who in Ireland—
- (a) knowingly supplies milk which is unclean or contained in a dirty vessel for use in a creamery, cream-separating station, or other place where milk supplied by two or more suppliers is used for the manufacture of butter, cream, or other dairy produce for sale: or
- (b) knowingly accepts for use or uses in any such place as aforesaid any milk which is unclean or contained in a dirty vessel;
§ LORD ASHBY ST. LEDGERSI wish to insert a new subsection here which would make it a penalty for any one to refuse to give the name and address when required of any person guilty of supplying unclean milk.
§ Amendment moved—
§
Clause 11, page 6, line 3, after ("pounds") insert:
(2) Where milk which is unclean or contained in a dirty vessel is found by an officer of the Department at or in the course of delivery to any such place as aforesaid, any person who knowing the name and address of the person by whom the milk is supplied refuses to give that name and address when required by the officer shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding for the first offence ten shillings and for the second or any subsequent offence one pound."—(Lord Ashby St. Ledgers.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 11, as amended, agreed to.
§ Clause 12:
§ Unclean Butter.
§ 12.—(1) Any manufacturer of or dealer in butter who sells or offers for sale in Ireland for use in a butter factory or a margarine factory, butter which is unclean, shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, unless he proves to the satisfaction of the Court that the butter was sold otherwise than as an article of food for human consumption.
§ (2) If any unclean butter is found in a butter factory or margarine factory in Ireland, the occupier of the factory shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, unless he proves to the satisfaction of the Court that the butter was not intended to be blended, re-worked, or treated in the factory.
§ (3) Any person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding for the first offence one pound, for the second offence two pounds, and for the third or any subsequent offence five pounds.
§ LORD ASHBY ST. LEDGERSI move, after "sold" towards the end of subsection (1), to insert "or offered for sale as the case may be." This is merely a drafting Amendment.
§
Amendment moved—
Clause 12, page 6, line 8, after ("sold") insert ("or offered for sale as the case may be").—(Lord Ashby St. Ledgers.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 12, as amended, agreed to.
§ Clauses 13 to 17 agreed to.
§ Clause 18:
§ Interpretation.
§ 18. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
§ The expression "creamery business" means the business of manufacturing butter from cream which has been separated from milk by means of centrifugal force applied by mechanical power;
§ The expression "cream-separating business" means the business of separating cream from milk by the method aforesaid:
§ The expression "prescribed" means prescribed by the Department;
§ The expression "dairy produce" includes any article of human food made wholly or mainly from milk, its products, or bye-products.
§ Loin ASHBY ST. LEDGERSThe three Amendments standing in my name to this clause are merely drafting Amendments to ensure that the machinery should be driven by mechanically applied power.
§
Amendments moved—
Clause 18, page 8, line 29, after ("force") insert ("mechanically")
Clause 18, page 8, line 30, leave out ("by mechanical power")
Clause 18, page 8, line 33, after ("aforesaid") insert ("The expression 'mechanically applied' means applied by machinery driven by any motive power other than human or animal power").—(Lord Ashby St. Ledgers)
§ On Question, Amendments agreed to.
§ Clause 18, as amended, agreed to.
§ Remaining clause and Schedule agreed to.
§ The Report of Amendments to be received To-morrow, and Bill to be printed as amended. (No. 128.)