Regulations

(1) The Minister may make regulations for all or any of the purposes mentioned in any of the following paragraphs– (a) for the registration by the Minister of persons carrying on or proposing to carry on the trade of a dairy farmer or to operate a milk processing plant and the registration of dairies and milk processing plants and for prohibiting any person from carrying on the trade or operating such plant unless he and the premises used as a dairy or milk processing plant are registered and for the refusal or 36 cancellation of registration for such reasons as the Minister shall think fit; (b) for the prohibition of sale of any milk or milk product produced in Belize unless such milk or milk product comes from a registered dairy farm; (c) for the prohibition of the use in any milk processing plant of any milk produced in Belize unless such milk comes from a registered dairy farm; (d) for the inspection of dairies and milk processing plants and of persons employed therein or who have access to any milk, churns, vessels, plant equipment or machinery used therein; (e) for imposing obligations on dairy farmers and persons operating milk processing plants and their employees with regard to infectious illnesses; (f) or securing the cleanliness of churns, vessels or other appliances or any plant equipment or machinery used in any dairy or milk processing plant; (g) with respect to the lighting, ventilation, cleansing, drain-age, water supply, layout construction and sanitary and washing facilities of dairies and milk processing plants; (h) for the inspection of cattle on dairy farms; (i) for preventing danger to health from the sale of infected, contaminated or dirty milk and, in 37 particular, for prohibiting the supply or sale of milk suspected of being infected; (j) prescribing the methods to be used in the pasteurisation of milk; (k) prescribing precautions to be taken for protecting milk or milk products against infection or contamination; (l) regulating the cooling, conveyance, distribution and storage of milk; (m) prescribing the records to be kept in respect of any dairy or milk processing plant or of any process carried on therein; (n) for the labelling, marking, or identification of any milk or milk product produced in a dairy or milk processing plant and the sealing or closing of churns and other vessels used for the conveyance of milk, the labelling of vessels in which milk is sold, exposed or offered for sale or delivered, and the display of the vendor’s name and address on any stall or any cart, barrow or other vehicle from which milk is sold or delivered; (o) prohibiting or restricting the addition to or abstraction of fat or any other constituent from milk or the sale of milk to which any such addition or from which any such abstraction has been made or which has been otherwise artificially treated; and (p) for preventing danger to health from the importation of milk. 38 (2) Regulations made under this section may be general regulations or regulations limited to a specified area. (3) Any regulations made under this section providing for the refusal or cancellation of any registration shall– (a) require notice to be given to the person affected of any intention to refuse or cancel the registration, stating the grounds on which it is alleged that the regulations cannot be or are not being complied with, as the case may be, and his rights of making objections and representations in accordance with the (b) enable the person described in paragraph (a), within the time prescribed by the regulations (which shall not be less, in the case of a refusal, than twenty-eight days or, in the case of a cancellation, than twenty-one days, from the date of the service of the said notice), to object, in respect of all or any of the grounds stated in the notice, that the regulations can be or are being complied with, as the case may be; (c) provide for the reference of any such objection to a tribunal and for the setting up of and procedure in such tribunal; (d) provide for entitling the person objecting to appear before a tribunal with any witnesses he desires to call, and request the tribunal to inspect the premises to which the objections relate; (e) require the tribunal to determine whether the objections are made out and, if not, on which 39 of the grounds in respect of which they are made they are not made out; (f) provide that the determinations of the tribunal as stated in the report shall, for the purpose of the proposal to refuse or cancel registration, be conclusive evidence of the facts found thereby; (g) provide that no registration shall be cancelled– (i) in any case, until the expiration of the prescribed time for making objections or representations under the regulations; (ii) in a case where an objection is made within that time, until the determination of the tribunal. (4) Any regulations made under this section shall be laid before the House of Representatives as soon as may be after the making thereof and if the House by resolution request that such regulations laid before it be rescinded, such regulations shall be rescinded by the Minister, but without prejudice to the validity of anything done thereunder or the making of new regulations. (5) In this section“dairy” includes any dairy farm, cowshed, milking house, milk store, milk shop or other premises from which milk is supplied on or for sale, or in which milk is kept or used for purposes of sale or for the purpose of manufacture into butter, cheese, condensed milk or dried milk or in which vessels used for the sale of milk are kept, but does not include a shop from which milk is supplied only in properly closed vessels in which it is delivered to the shop, or a shop or other place in which milk is sold for consumption on the premises only; 40 “dairy farm” means any farm, cowshed or other premises being a dairy on which milk is produced from cows; “dairy farmer” means any person who produces milk from cows. mild, certain