Milk and Dairies Act, 1935

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Right of entry on premises.

13.—(1) Every officer of a sanitary authority and every inspector shall, for the purposes of enforcing the provisions of this Act and any orders and regulations made thereunder, be entitled to enter at all reasonable times any premises.

(2) If any person obstructs or impedes any officer of a sanitary authority or any inspector in exercise of the power conferred on such officer or inspector by this section, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds.

(3) Nothing in this section shall authorise any person, except with the permission of the local authority under the Diseases of Animals (Ireland) Acts, 1894 to 1934, to enter any cow-shed or other place in which an animal affected with any disease to which those Acts apply is kept and which is situated in a place declared under those Acts to be infected with such disease.