Milk (Great Britain) Order 1962
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1962/1786 |
| Year | 1962 |
1962 No. 1786
EMERGENCY POWERS
The Milk (Great Britain) Order 196213thAugust 1962
20thAugust 1962
2ndSeptember 1962
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, acting jointly in pursuance of the powers conferred upon them by Regulations 55 and 55AB of the Defence (General) Regulations 1939 as having effect by virtue of section 2 of the Emergency Laws (Repeal) Act 1959(a) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby order as follows:—
Commencement, citation and extent
1.—(1) This order shall come into operation on 2nd September 1962; and may be cited as the Milk (Great Britain) Order 1962.
(2) This order shall not extend to Northern Ireland.
Interpretation
2.—(1) In this order—
"catering business" means the business or undertaking of an inn, public-house, hotel, restaurant, café, tea-shop, buffet, coffee-stall or any place of refreshment open to the public, or of a club, boarding house, apartment house, refreshment contractor, school feeding centre, staff dining room or canteen; and "caterer" shall be construed accordingly;
"Certified milk" means milk in respect of which the designation "Certified" is lawfully used pursuant to the Milk (Special Designations) (Scotland) Orders 1951 and 1952(b);
"Channel Islands milk" means—
(a) as respects England and Wales, milk which is produced from cows of the Channel Islands breeds and which is labelled "Channel Islands milk", "Jersey milk" or "Guernsey milk" when sold in a container;
(b) as respects Scotland, milk which is lawfully sold as Channel Islands milk pursuant to the Milk and Dairies (Channel Islands and South Devon Milk) (Scotland) Regulations 1958(c);
"Homogenised milk" means milk which (i) has been treated by heat (ii) has been so processed as to break up the globules of butterfat and cause them to remain uniformly distributed throughout the milk instead of rising to the surface and (iii) when sold in a container is labelled "Homogenised milk";
"milk" means liquid cow's milk but does not include separated milk, skimmed milk, condensed milk or evaporated milk;
(a) 7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 19.
(b) S.I. 1951/644, 1952/2142 (1951 I, p. 1316; 1952 I, p. 1088).
(c) S.I. 1958/2229 (1958 I, p. 1192).
"the Ministers" means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State acting jointly;
"Pasteurised milk" means milk in respect of which the special designation "Pasteurised" is lawfully used pursuant to the Milk (Special Designation) Regulations 1960(a) or, in relation to Scotland, is lawfully used pursuant to the Milk (Special Designations) (Scotland) Orders 1951 and 1952;
"sell" includes offer or agree to sell or expose for sale;
"South Devon milk" means—
(a) as respects England and Wales, milk which is produced from cows of the South Devon breed and which is labelled "South Devon milk" when sold in a container;
(b) as respects...
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